246794 - with non-ascii user name, can't send mail due to temp dir name mangling

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 260034

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Thomas Wolff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: 

This is with Firefox 0.8.
From a Windows XP user account that contains a non-ASCII letter (Cäcilia), 
I could not send mail; it complained about the TEMP directory not being found; 
the message revealed that the user name had been mangled.
After reconfiguring the temp directory to something outside the user data 
area, it worked.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create Windows account Cäcilia and use it
2. run Firefox
3. compose a mail and try to send it




I consider the severity to be Major because the normal user will not 
have the clue to reconfigure the temp directory; also it's not a nice 
work-around.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Same thing is Bug 248957. Please try TB 0.7.1, there was some work for profiles
with non-ascii chars.

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

Try current builds like 1.0 RC.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 260034 ***