271009 - Folder looks empty if folder name contain accented characters

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 268185

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Mantran]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104

I just moved from Mozilla Mail (1.7.3) to Thunderbird.

Import mail/pref did not work (crash report already sent a few weeks ago). So I
managed to copy the Mozilla Mail folder to the Thunderbird Mail folder.
Everything looked ok, except some folders/sub-folders which seemed to be empty.
I finally noticed that these folders had names containing accented characters,
e.g. "Télécom", as there were with Mozilla Mail.
Trying to rename the folders did not work - nothing was happening on OK.

The work around I found was to rename the mail files and folders directly from
the finder, without accented characters.
Once I restarted Thunderbird I could read again the folder content.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
Accented characters should be supported in folder names.

At least, such imported folders should not look like they are empty (risk of
spurrious user's deletion).

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

See bug 241608 comment 13.

Comment 2

[Frankie]

Identical symptoms, corrected in Tbird 1.0 (20041206)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 268185 ***