1773235 - Thunderbird corrupts CardDAV (Nextcloud) contact names

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Václav Nováček]

Attachment: contact context window

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0

Steps to reproduce:

Lets have set up CardDAV (Nextcloud in my case) in sync.
(1) Create a new contact with name "Káťa" from TB. Thunderbird stores and shows "Káťa" instead.
(2) The another bug is when a contact context menu is shown from email header and button "Edit details" is clicked than the contact name containing non-ascii characters is automatically corrupted and saved without clicking Save button in the subsequently open edit window.

Actual results:

Contact name (possible other info) corrupted in CardDAV.

Expected results:

1. Do not automatically modify contact info.
2. Do not corrupt contact info.

Comment 1

[Václav Nováček]

Attachment: contact edit window

Comment 2

[Václav Nováček]

The way how to work around this bug is to switch that CardDAV to readonly mode.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Tried adding a "Káťa" contact in google carddav address book. Works fine for me.

Comment 4

[Václav Nováček]

@Magnus I've tested another CardDAV server Radicale and seems it works fine with TB. Probably NextCloud related.

Comment 5

[Václav Nováček]

However Roundcube's CardDAV client works fine with NextCloud in this matter. Not sure which side is the problem, TB or NextCloud?

Comment 6

[Gil [:gil]]

I don't think it's just Nextcloud related. I've been using Purelymail as my provider and I'm also experiencing this behaviour... But in my case the non-ASCII characters are getting replaced by 2 Unicode replacement characters as soon as Thunderbird syncs with the CardDAV server.

Comment 7

[Gil [:gil]]

Attachment: Non-ASCII unicode character "ê" being replaced by 2 Unicode replacement characters

Comment 8

[Gil [:gil]]

(In reply to Václav Nováček from comment #5)

However Roundcube's CardDAV client works fine with NextCloud in this matter. Not sure which side is the problem, TB or NextCloud?

Curiously Purelymail's Roundcube also displays the character correctly, as well as the macOS native contacts app, but not he iOS one.