235495 - Does not import any IE favorites (including folders) that contain special non-ascii characters or letters in the name

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 174734

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Eugene Vishnevsky]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

When I open Bookmarks -> Imported IE favorites, there are no bookmarks whose
names contain cyrillic letters. Neither there are any bookmark folders that are
named in cyrillic.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. In IE create a bookmark "Тест закладки"
2. Exit IE and start FireFox.
3. Go to bookmarks and check if it's imported.

Actual Results:  
Bookmarks not seen.

Expected Results:  
Should import all IE favs.

none.

Comment 1

[erdfcv246]

My IE favorites had Devanagari characters (Languages (India):
Sanskrit/Hindi/Marathi)) in the urls and folders. FireFox 0.8 was not able to
import them also. From Windows 2000/XP, I can have UNICODE file names, which
means I can have filenames with any character in the world (UNICODE).

Comment 2

[shadytrees]

You shouldn't be seeing the Cyrllic bookmarks, ever, because Firefox only 
imports Internet Explorer Favorites upon first run. However, if Bookmark Manager 
-> File -> Import doesn't import it, then it'll be a bug.

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

*** Bug 253928 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

*** Bug 256236 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 250719 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 248086 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Lee]

I can not still import(FirFox 1.0PR) all my IE-Favoties which a chinese
name(UniCode) has.

Comment 8

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

you can't block a release that's already shipped.

Comment 9

[timeless]

could someone please click "Create a New Attachment" and attach an example
bookmark? such things really do help.

Comment 10

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

This is either a bug in NSPR, or in our usage of NSPR.

The IE Favorites importer goes through the Favorites directory, reading
filenames using a DirectoryEnumerator, which in turn calls PR_ReadDir. 
PR_ReadDir eventually calls the platform SDK function FindNextFile.  For files
with non-ASCII (or, rather, I assume non-whatever-the-codepage-was-for-win95)
characters, this function seems to return a '?' character instead of the correct
character.  Thus, we get a filename back out that looks like '???? ???-??
??????.lnk'.  This gets returned to nsLocalFileWin's DirectoryEnumerator, which
double-checks to make sure that the file exists in the directory -- I have no
idea why it does this, but I assume to protect against cases like this.  In any
case, a file named '???? ??......' doesn't exist, and so the entry gets skipped.

I've filed bug 262922 against nsLocalFileWin; once that's fixed, this should be
fixed as well.

Comment 11

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

we'd consider a patch that didn't scare us but we're not going to block the
release on this.

Comment 12

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

*** Bug 263789 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Jonathan Ng]

Hope this bug get solved faster. I deal with quite abit of Chinese text website.

Comment 14

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 268859 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Tom Gallant]

So that's what happened! Imported IE6 Favorites, Exported to IE6 Favorites, lost
several folders & individual entries in IE6. Import & Export *should* do a
merge, not a replace. Firefox 1.0 (2004110711), IE 6.0.2800.1106 SP1, Win98SE
4.10.2222A.

Comment 16

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 288569 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 288710 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[James]

Attachment: Favorite from Internet Explorer 6 to: "MSN - Mainichi INTERACTIVE"

SOmeone in the replies below asked for an example...so here it is.  If I go to
the website in Firefox 1.0.3 I can add this shortcut just fine.  But when I try
to import it from IE, it does not work.

Comment 19

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change

Comment 20

[Jungshik Shin]

dupe and fixed thanks to bug 162361 fix

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 174734 ***