195061 - Linked IE Favorites with non-ASCII characters display incorrectly & can't be used

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Joseph Doer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030225 Netscape/7.02 (AOL 8.0RC3)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030225

On my german Win2k some of the Windows-Favories where not shown the right way.
They - since latest Trunk - show cryptic characters for special characters like
umlauts (הצ��סבים etc.) and the link for that ones do not work. 
Does somebody played in the Code? ;-)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
Popups an info message: Alert, cannot be found.

Expected Results:  
Popups an info message: Alert, cannot be found.

This happens only for Favorites which contain international characters.

Comment 1

[Joseph Doer]

In the 1.3 tree it keeps on working (again) in the new 1.4 it continues broken. :(

Comment 2

[Steve Chapel]

Two questions:
1. What do the "cryptic characters" look like? Copy-and-paste them in or attach
a screen shot.
2. How do the actual and expected behavior differ? If they are identical, there
is no bug!
Ideally, both questions will have the same answer. ;)

Comment 3

[Joseph Doer]

Attachment: This is like they look like in Mozilla 1.4

Collected Screenshot

Comment 4

[Joseph Doer]

Attachment: The Allert Box

Two of the Alert Boxes which apear after clicking such a Bookmark.

Comment 5

[Joseph Doer]

Attachment: This is like they should look like

... and this way they work like a normal bookmark. :)
This is like it is in Mozilla 1.2 and 1.3

Comment 6

[Steve Chapel]

Can you give some steps to reproduce? What web page should I bookmark in IE and
import into Mozilla to see the described actual results?

Comment 7

[Joseph Doer]

Well, it's not the Import of Favorites to Bookmarks - it's the "include
Favorites" from IE into Bookmarks.

I use the german Win2k SP3 with IE6 SP1.
Go to "Manage Bookmarks".
1. Notice you can only have one of this "links" in your Mozilla-Bookmarks.
2. Select a folder of your choice.
3. Select "File" > "New" > "Bookmark".
4. Type the Name for the Bookmark(-Folder) like you desire.
5. Type in the direct URL (or any Favorites subfolder) to your own local
Favorites folder like:
    file:///C|/Dokumente%20und%20Einstellungen/joe/Favoriten/Links
(You should replace the colon with a pipe! - If you already have such a "link"
it will now be renamed)
6. Voila! Now you Should have access to the IE Favorites [under Moz1.2 or 1.3]

Now in the future if you manipulate any of the IE Favorites you should restart
Mozilla to get access to those changes. AND you can create Favorites with
Mozilla by dragging the URL from the Location Bar to the Favorites (through the
Start-Menu).

Let's make an example:
Take perhaps http://www.golem.de/ (which has an umlaut "ü" in the title).
1. Drag the URL from the Mozilla Location Bar to "Start" > "Favorites" >
"WhatsoeverFolder".
2. Relaunch Mozilla.
3. Open Mozilla "Manage Bookmarks"
4a. Moz 1.2/1.3: You should now see in the selected Favorites-Folder the link
"Golem.de - IT-News für Profis" and the correct URL.
4b. Moz pre1.4: You will see in that Favorites-Folder a link like in the
attached images "Golem.de - IT-New für Profis" and the URL is missing in the
line. So the Link can't work. :/ BTW: <title>Golem.de - IT-News f&uuml;r
Profis</title>

Anyway I have also some Favorites whithout Umlaut like http://www.aldi.de which
also causes the same effect and this page has this title-tag:
<title>ALDI&nbsp;International</title> 

Comment 8

[Steve Chapel]

I can reproduce on Windows 98 SE with IE 5.5 using Mozilla trunk build
2003030508. I had to create the bookmark in steps 3-5 in a folder called
"Links". The umlaut appeared as "ü" instead of "ü", and I got an Alert when I
tried to access the bookmark. A workaround is to export the bookmarks from IE
and import them into Mozilla each time you update the IE Favorites.

Comment 9

[Steve Chapel]

Bug 194067 looks very similar, but is a problem with drag-and-drop instead of
linked bookmarks.

Comment 10

[Joseph Doer]

In Addition: If I change the name of an existing Favorite like "Dänisches
Bettenlager Internet Shop" into "Daenisches Bettenlager Internet Shop" and
restart Mozilla 1.4a (build 2003031008) the link works.

I think this is a fault in the character translation or en-/decoding. And why
does this work in the actual 1.2x and 1.3x build and since some weeks it's
broken in 1.4 ??

BTW: the drag'n'drop with umlauts or non-ASCII characters from IE Favorites to
Mozilla - like described in bug 194067 - works für me very fine.

Comment 11

[marina]

Yuying, can you reproduce it?Thanks.

Comment 12

[Yuying Long]

On 04-09 trunk build / WinXP-JA:
The non-native non-ascii charaters titled page can not be displayed in "Imported
IE Favorites" directory.

Comment 13

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Mass reassign of my non-Firefox bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 14

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 15

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420