173912 - Address book tab-delimited export garbles characters outside locale character set

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 117236

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Eyal Rozenberg]

build id: 2002-10-03-17 (although it shouldn't matter).

When exporting an address book to a tab-separated text file, characters which
aren't part of the extended Windows ASCII get written as so many question mark
(?'s). This does not happen for LDIF format export which uses some numeric
encoding for these entries. I don't what happens for CSV... since for some
reason I get the same output for CSV as for LDIF (another bug?).

I would think the output text file should be a UTF-8 file, or even a UTF-16 file.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Confirming. The bug exists in Thunderbird also.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

per Mark

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117236 ***