1773435 - special characters in saved search (virtual Folder) name get converted to Hex-code, and shows double in TB

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

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Attachment: Screenshot_20220609_091400.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:101.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/101.0

Steps to reproduce:

Hello,

I'm using Kubuntu 20.04, and installed TB from ubuntu's standard respository (currently 91.10.0)

What did I do:

1. create a saved search, and put any of the following characters in its name ()|,:[]{} (includes also space, other special characters may also cause problems
2. saved search shows correctly
3. close Thunderbird, then start Thunderbird again
4. saved search shows double: once with correct name, once with "something else" (in my case ... ()cc728498)
5. in virtualFolders.dat, the saved search shows up as ...mydomain.org/1_monitoring/test%20%28%29%7C%2C%3A.%5B%5D%7B%7D

(other saved searches containing only a-z_. show up correctly since many months, and restarts, so it seems to be a specific problem with those special characters) I have to monitor external services, and emails come in based on weekdays. I would need a simple way to know which emails I have to receive on which day. The best way would be to create a "checklist" inside the name of the saved search (e.g. "external-service1: daily(hw,lw), za(iml,pro), mo(dr,dq)"

Actual results:

1. after restart, saved search shows double in TB
2. in virtualFolders.dat, the some characters are converted to HEX

Expected results:

1. the saved search should always show correctly