262073 - Cannot backup certificate --- file creation error for unknow reasons

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 217305

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect)

Description

[Thomas S. Iversen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040924 Debian/1.7.3-2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040924 Debian/1.7.3-2

Hi there

When trying to backup a certificate (Edit -> prefs -> Privacy & Security ->
Certificates -> click on tab Manage Certificates -> select certificate -> press
backup -> enter password -> enter passwords x 2 -> alert about filecreation.

The exact alert is:

"Failed to create the PKCS #12 backup file for unknown reasons"

The certificate works fine!

I have a suspecion on what might be wrong. Namely non-english chars. The
certificate is issued as part of a governmental push here in denmark and
therefor contains my full official name which is:

"Thomas Sandø Iversen"

My guess is that it is the ø char which causes problems. Other certificates can
be backup up quite nicely, but not this one!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> PSM

Comment 2

[Thomas S. Iversen]

> "Thomas Sandø Iversen"

Just to be precise. The char in question is what is equvivalent to "ø" in
html. See, even when submitting a bug we get these annoying (unrelated but
simelar) localization problemes :-/

Regards Thomas

Comment 3

[Josh Birnbaum]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 217305 ***