185818 - Favorites containing non-Latin characters cannot be dragged and dropped on Mozilla.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 194067

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[kaleida]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: 1.2.1

If an Internet Explorer 6.0 favorite containing non-Latin characters
is dragged and dropped to Mozilla, the following error message is 
displayed: "The file URLName.url cannot be found. Please chack the location and 
try again."
For example, bookmark the following Web page in IE6.0 and then drag
and drop pme of them on Mozilla 1.2.1.

http://linux.org.ru/


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the following Web page using IE6.0 and add it as a new favorite.
http://linux.org.ru/
2. Drag and drop this IE6.0 favorite onto Mozilla 1.2.1
3.

Actual Results:  
"The file URLName.url cannot be found. Please chack the location and 
try again."


Expected Results:  
It should have opened the specified Web page.

Comment 1

[Steve Chapel]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 194067 ***

Comment 2

[kaleida]

This bug still has not been fixed completely, even in Mozilla 1.5 for Windows.
Any non-Latin characters that are present in the page title are omitted if the
URL is dragged and dropped to any folder, say Favorites.