7432 - Folder's name with 8-bit chars do not display right

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[marina]

Steps to reproduce:
-copy a folder name from 4.6 with 8-bit chars in it to 5.0;
-run Mail and see
//note: folders name with 8-bit chars in it are showing 8-bit chars as dots
(pop3 server,observed with 6/1/99 Win build)

Comment 1

[nhottanscp]

Reassigning to [e-mail].
Scott, is this supposed to work? Marina said it was working last week.

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

I don't think I touched anything regarding folder names any time recently.  What
do I need to be doing to make this work?

Comment 3

[nhottanscp]

There are number of Latin1 8 bit related problem started yesterday so this may
be one of them. You can reassign back to me.
I have one question aside from the current problem. Is this supposed to work for
non ascii (e.g. Japanese)?

Comment 4

[scottputterman]

Reassigning to nhotta based on his last comment.  As far as I know I haven't
touched this code.  However, I haven't done anything to make this work or not
work for Japanese so this could still all be my fault, if it was never working
before.

Comment 5

[nhottanscp]

I think this is a part of Latin1 8bit problems caused by nsString. Please verify
for folder name with Latin1 8bits.
In addition, please try Japanese folder name and report if any problem to
[e-mail] as a separate bug, thanks.

Comment 6

[marina]

Folder's name that contains non-ascii chars are displaying correctly in 6/8/99
build, marking as verified.

Comment 7

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Marina, does your test include Japanese folder names, too?

Comment 8

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

It doesn't look like Japanese folder names are supported
currently in that they seem to be interpreted as Latin 1 or
UTF-8.

There is also a special problem with 0x5c JPN
names in that folders containing such names do not show up
at all.

Comment 9

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Naoki, this is supposed to be system dependent. Right?
So on US systems, we need to assume the system charset
there in names but on JPN systems, we need to assume
whatever the locale charset is, e.g. Shift_JIS (Mac/Win),
EUC-JP or Shift_JIS (Unix lcoales).

Comment 10

[nhottanscp]

I am not sure about the implementaion detail of this. As I mentioned before, I
think it's better to create a separate bug for the problem you mentioned. We can
input the i18n info to Scott Putterman to solve the problem.

Comment 11

[marina]

I filed this bug originally for Latin-1, so i verified it for Latin-1. When i'll
test on JA win and in case i'll see the problem i'll open a bug for JA.

Comment 12

[nhottanscp]

Marking as FIXED.

Comment 13

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Since I looked at Japanese folder names already.
I'll file a new bug on that.