1946011 - Use UTF-8 strings for server names and folder names

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: General, task)

Description

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan) [OOO, back 7 Apr]]

Our new database is going to use UTF-8. The current code uses 16-bit strings to store names in memory, but whether we use 8- or 16-bit there is a bit of a 50/50 call. If we switch it all over to UTF-8 now that will make the work of adapting the code for the new database much easier. It does mean converting to UTF-16 every time we want to deal with the file system (which will be less often once we have a new database) or L10n (much of which shouldn't be a back-end problem), but OTOH handling folder URIs won't involve character set conversion (they will hopefully go away with a new database).

Comment 1

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan) [OOO, back 7 Apr]]

Attachment: Bug 1946011 - Use UTF-8 strings for server names and folder names. r=#thunderbird-back-end-reviewers

Comment 2

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan) [OOO, back 7 Apr]]

Attachment: Bug 1946011 - Change and test how NS_MsgHashIfNecessary works. r=#thunderbird-back-end-reviewers

This function returns NS_OK in all circumstances, and it modifies the string passed in, which is
not really what any of the callers want. Let's fix both things at once.

Depends on D236833.

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/e49801f1255a
Use UTF-8 strings for server names and folder names. r=mkmelin,BenC
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/401f9f5b6f43
Change and test how NS_MsgHashIfNecessary works. r=mkmelin