122816 - language coding error from import favorites from IE

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 127476

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[kayw]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (Win98; U)
BuildID:    20020123

I export the bookmark from Mozilla to IE's famorite. When I load Mozilla next 
time, Mozilla automatically imports favouite from IE. However, if the original 
Mozilla' bookmark contains double-byte characters, such as Chinese (I'm a 
Chinese) & Japanese, "all" bookmarks (includes the original and the one imported 
from IE) will become "code". This error happened in early Mozilla build such as 
0.9.5. I reported this error before, but at that time I didn't descripted it 
well because I didn't make sure what error. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Export bookmarks which have Chinese characters from Mozilla
2. Import this bookmark file to IE 5
3. Load Mozilla again, and those bookmarks in Chinese become "code"

Actual Results:  can't see Chinese (and Japanese) Bookmarks in English would be 
fine.

Expected Results:  Option to disable automatical import favorite from IE or fix 
this bug.

I guess.... the reason is Mozilla's bookmarks are encoded by unicode, however 
IE's favorite are in Big-5, so when IE favorite are imported, the Big-5 mixed up 
with Unicode. This is just my guessing....

Comment 1

[Andrew Hagen]

Old Summary: language coding error from import bookmark from IE

New Summary: language coding error from import favorites from IE

Reporter, could you please try this again. Work was recently done on the IE
Favorites import, and it might have solved the problem.

Comment 2

[kayw]

Hi,

The problem is still existing.

As shown in the attached picture, the bookmark imported from IE is still
unreadable. Also, the existing Mozilla's bookmarks are also unreadable too.
Moziila's bookmarks are fine (show Chinese characters properly) before importing
favorite from IE.

The solution is I can't have any favorite in Chinese as title in IE, or simple
earse all Favorite; otherwise the Mozilla's bookmarks will be corrupted.

PS : I email you the attached picture since I can't load the image on bugzilla. 

Thanks.

Kay

Comment 3

[Andrew Hagen]

Attachment: screenshot of the problem

Comment 4

[Andrew Hagen]

Confirming on Windows 98, Build ID: 2002022203 (0.9.8+). See also bug 111428.

Comment 5

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

*** Bug 128216 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Is this occurring in the dynamic IE favorites folder or the new static one? The
dynamic one is now/will be turned off by default. 

Comment 7

[Shoshannah Forbes]

for hebrew. this is accoring when impoorting from a static file exported from ie

Comment 8

[kayw]

I still see this bugs in latest released build 2002031106 (0.9.9)

This is exactly what you should do to see this bugs,
1) Load Mozilla, then go this site http://appledaily.atnext.com, bookmark it in
Mozilla. (this is a popular online newspaper in Chinese. Please note that this
bugs not only appear on this site, but ALL Chinese and Japanese sites with
double-byte characters as title)

2) Quit Mozilla,

3) Load IE and go to the same site again, file it into Favorite. 

4) Quit IE

5) Load Mozilla again, and the original bookamrk bookmarked by Mozilla becomes
"code" as well as the same bookmark in the "Import from IE favorite folder"

I test on the nightly built too, but no fixed yet. This is very severe bugs
since the IE favorite will corrupt the Mozilla's bookmark. However, if you just
read English, it doesn't harmful.

Comment 9

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 127476?

Comment 10

[Andrew Hagen]

Resolving as a duplicate. If you think this is not a duplicate, please reopen.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127476 ***

Comment 11

[Tony Tovar]

Since this was a dupe, I'm removing it as a blocker on bug 120814.