147823 - Can't post to newsgroups with international chars on its name

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 126453

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Álvaro González]

You can't post to a newsgroup with a non-ascii character on its name. You get
this message:

A News (NNTP) error occurred: Posting Failed (Article NOT Posted to a Valid
Newsgroup)

It's possible that naming a newsgroups with non-English chars violates standards
(I don't know) but newsgroup exist and other client users can post to it.

Also, when I edit as new the saved message the newsgroup name is incorrectly
encoded:

diseño_y_creacion_de_webs -> diseño_y_creacion_de_webs

Comment 1

[marina]

Álvaro, what build are you using? When you say Edit as new are you editing a
newsarticle as new? Would you please use news.mcom.com and publish an article
with non-ascii chars to netscape.public.mozilla.qa.i18n? Thanks

Comment 2

[marina]

i have no problem posting newsarticles to netscape.public.mozilla.qa.i18n using
japanese, french, finnish chars, they all display correctly. Editing them as new
doesn't show a problem either.

Comment 3

[Álvaro González]

I use Mozilla 1 RC3 build 2002052306.

What I mean is that while I'm composing the message the "Newsgroup" field looks 
OK: the newsgroup name is correctly spelled. But whenever it's saved to a 
folder (either "Draft" or "Unsent Messages") and reopened to edit (either 
double clicking or selecting "Edit As New") then the non-ASCII char looks 
ruined at "Newsgroup" field: I see two (wrong) bytes where there should only be 
one. I've just checked it and, however, looks like a cosmethic problem. It 
looks good at message list pane, it looks bad in Compose windows.

I believe there's a misunderstanding: the problem is the *name* of the 
newsgroup, not the text I type. I can post to all groups in that server except 
one group that has a Spanish "ñ" on its name. Not sure whether it's an 
open server though, it belongs to my ISP...

Comment 4

[Álvaro González]

Attachment: Problematic newsgroup

These screenshots show the "Newsgroup" field

Comment 5

[marina]

Álvaro, let me clarify this: what you are seeing is a wrong display of the
newsgroup name when you editing as new an article saved to Drafts? I can not
connect to your server , so could you please list the reproducable steps so that
i would connect to a server with non-ascii name and try to reproduce the bug.
Thanks.

Comment 6

[marina]

Álvaro, could you actually see the name of the server with spanish chars
correctly? could that be a dup of bug #126453?

Comment 7

[Álvaro González]

It doesn't seem a dup of that bug: I can see the newgroup name correctly. I can 
read messages correctly. The only thing I can't do is posting (neither new 
messages nor replies): Mozilla claims the newsgroup name is not valid.

I'm sorry, news.servicios.retecal.es seems to be only for my ISP users. I'm 
trying to have a non-ascii name group created in an open server, I'll let you 
know if I accomplish it.

BTW, I can't enter news.mcom.com ("Connection refused").

Comment 8

[Álvaro González]

Test group available:
* Server: news.deinter.net
* Group: test_ñ

I've posted sucessfully a couple of messages using Outlook Express but I still 
get the same message with Mozilla: "NOT Posted to a Valid Newsgroup".

How to reproduce: subscribe and try to post. That's all.

Comment 9

[marina]

Álvaro, i subscribed to news.deinter.net, selected test_ñ and published
successfully to the group, you have to be able to see my posting, i didn't get
any error messages.

Comment 10

[Álvaro González]

I've just read it. I tried to post a follow-up but I couldn't (the same not-
valid-newsgroup message). Will it be a Windows specific problem? I don't know 
what else to do in order to help, I'm not a developer :(

Comment 11

[marina]

confirm the bug on windows: i was not able to post to the server using
2002-05-30 build on winnt though it is possible on MacOSX. The server name is
not recognized. if you save the unsent message to Drafts and Edit it as new the
non-ascii server name in the "To" filed will be displayed as single-byte chars (
this is another bug and i'll file it separetely). Álvaro, thank you for giving
me access to the server.

Comment 12

[marina]

Attachment: this is an error that you get when attempting to post the message to the server with non-ascii name

Comment 13

[marina]

Attachment: this is a second error message received from the server with non-ascii name when posting

Comment 14

[marina]

adding nsbeta1 keyword, considering it very important for intl users when the
newsgroup has a non-ascii name, changing qa contact

Comment 15

[Michael Buckland]

Discussed in mail news bug meeting.  Decided to minus this bug.

Comment 16

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

reassign to simon

Comment 17

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

reassign to simon - we looked at this and reaffirm that it is nsbeta1-

Comment 18

[Samir Gehani]

i18n triage team: nsbeta1-

Comment 19

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

I successfully posted to test_ñ from both Thunderbird and Seamonkey Mail/News

Comment 20

[Jungshik Shin]

This is actually a dupe of bug 126453. The apparent difference in symptoms (described in comment #7) is due to that the old code just zero-padded ISO-8859-1 to UTF-16, which works for this case.

Comment 21

[Jungshik Shin]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126453 ***