23268 - int. chars in fx. "Your name" get written funny

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect, P3)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

If I enter "Hænrik Gømal" in "Your Name" in the account setting dialog the data
that actually gets written to the prefs.js file is different. My data in the
pref becomes:
user_pref("mail.identity.id2.fullName", "Hænrik Gømal");

The data you enter should also be the data in the prefs!

Build 20000105

Comment 1

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

This is as it should be. All non-ASCII data in prefs.js msut be
stored in UTF-8. What you are seeing is the UTF-8 encoding of
the name you put in.

We need to provide a handy UTF-8 editor to use for prefs.js -- hopefully
we can come up with one soon.

This bug should be resolved as Worksforme or Invalid.

Comment 2

[Alec Flett]

yes, I was going to write the same thing but momoi beat me to it.

Comment 3

[bobj]

beppe or buster,
Eons ago, we had discused that composer would be able to open *.js files
and treat them like *.txt files?  I haven't tried this recently.  Is this
in the plans?  Because composer should be able to handle UTF-8 text files.

Comment 4

[buster]

I think Akkana is the right person to ask.  cc-ing her.

Comment 5

[Akkana Peck]

I don't know what code handles figuring out which type of editor to use
depending on the file suffix.  Simon might know more -- cc'ing.  It certainly
sounds very reasonable that we should treat .js files as plain text, and if
we're not doing that already, I'd encourage filing a new bug on that issue (I
would assume that the fix for that would be straightforward for anyone on the
editor team).

Comment 6

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

** Checked with 1/13/00 Win32 build **

Verified as invalid.

A request to treat .js extension has been filed as a new Bug 23943.