274146 - Importing bookmarks doesn't convert bookmark items to UFT-8 in Linux

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Yukinoroh[:Yukinoroh]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115

I've been trying to import my japanese Netscape 4.x bookmarks file, which is
encoded in sjis, to Mozilla and Firefox under a ja_JP.UTF8 locale, but although
the meta tags are changed from japanese sjis to UTF-8, characters are not
converted, so I end up with garbled text.

Mozilla under Japanese Windows95 (and maybe newer Windows versions too) converts
the same file just fine. (So I can import that converted file, but there might
be people that have completely swept Windows away out there, so I am reporting
the bug ;)

I have tried to convert the file with gedit and SC Unipad, but characters like
"~" in addresses also get converted, so it shall really be done by Mozilla, and
address should be kept intact, like the Windows version of Mozilla does.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Import bookmarks from file

Actual Results:  
Garbled characters in bookmark items.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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