205584 - Special characters are lost after a palm sync ( €, ™)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 237624

(MailNews Core Graveyard :: Palm Sync, defect)

Description

[Ninoschka Baca]

Trunk build 2003-05-13: WinMe

Overview: After a palm sync certain special characters are lost. They either
become a "." or a "?". 

Steps to reproduce from Mozilla AB --> Palm Device:
1. In the Mozilla AB create cards for using the following special characters
a. Euro --> alt+0+128 = €
b. Tradmark --> alt+0+153 = ™
2. Perform a palm sync

Actual Results: The Mozilla AB retains the correct symbols but the palm device
has turned the Euro and the Trademark into a ".".

Steps to reproduce from Palm Device --> Mozilla AB:
1. On the palm device create a record using the Euro symbol
a. Euro --> alt+0+128 = €
2. Perform a palm sync

Actual Results: The Palm Device retains the euro symbol but the Mozilla AB
displays a "?".

Expected Results: In both scenarios the special character symbol should be retained.

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking nsbeta1 because I would think that a trademark symbol would be important
and that the international group would need this fix as well.

Interesting: An ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) Character List shows "--" for the key
sequence used for the Euro and Trademark symbol. (Here is a link to the
characters list http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/iso_table.html)

Comment 2

[marina]

Bob, Cavin
since euro and trademark are not a part of the 8859-1 code page how do we do
conversion when sync'ing?

Comment 3

[Samir Gehani]

adt: nsbeta1-

Comment 4

[Oneweb]

Confirming. (On Windows 2000) Creating a record in Mozilla AB with € and ™
results in  ¬ and " showing on the Palm entry respectively.

Creating a record on the Palm with € and ™ results in the entry's title
containing blocks and the entry itself missing them in Mozilla AB.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

cc to bug 237624 for (hopefully) eventual fix

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 237624 ***