173042 - Cannot subscribe a local file beginning with UTF-8 BOM

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Makino, Takaki]

It seems that Mozilla Calendar fails to subscribe a local file which begins with
UTF-8 Byte Order Mark "\xef\xbb\xbf".

http://www.snowelm.com/~t/temp/temp.ics
Download the .ics at the above URL to a local file.  
Select [Tools] - [Subscribe to Remote Calendar] from the menu, and choose the
file.  You don't see any events, although the file contains one.

When a newline is put before BEGIN:VCALENDAR as in
http://www.snowelm.com/~t/temp/temp2.ics, this problem does not 
occur.

Comment 1

[Mike Potter]

The first calendar does not have the text "BEGIN" in it, which is what we look
for to subscribe to calendars.
The second calendar does have it.

Comment 2

[Brant Gurganus]

Default QA Contact for Calendar has changed.  If you wish to remain the QA
contact for this bug, feel free to change it back.

Comment 3

[R.J. Keller]

VERIFIED, helping brant with QA since he's been busy recently.