279749 - Mapquest is not able to handle l10n / i18n requests

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0 build 20041206

If you're choosing to show a map for a not US address (containing umlauts like
ö, ä, ü, ß, ...), mapquest is not able to handle these links / addresses.

We should have another map service or l10n teams should be allowed to change the
url to another map service.

e.g.:
Max Mustermann
Pfungstädter Straße 41
64297 Darmstadt
Germany

Thunderbird opens this link, when clicking on "Get map":
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=Deutschland&address=Pfungst%C3%A4dter%20Stra%C3%9Fe%2041%20&city=Darmstadt&state=Hessen&zipcode=64297

Mapquest is not able to find the related map and states this:
You searched for "Pfungstädter Straße 41, Darmstadt, Hessen 64297", MapQuest did
not find this exact address, but found one very similar: "PfungstÄdter Strasse
41, Darmstadt, HESSEN 64297".

The similar found address can't be shown, too. You've to change the provided
link, so there are no "umlauts".

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

There are three possible solutions to this bug:

1) Change from Mapquest to another possible provider
2) Allow users (or l10n teams?) to change the map provider - in which case this 
bug becomes a duplicate of bug 254190 or bug 117154 (note the latter suggests 
there are hidden prefs already in existence)
3) Get Mapquest to support international characters (in which case this is 
invalid).

Scott: do you have any preferences?

Comment 2

[u60234]

L10n teams can already change provider by editing the
"mail.addr_book.mapit_url.format=" string in messenger-region/region.properties.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Looks like solution 1 did the job - Google Maps says that's at the corner of Pfungstädter Straße and Waldstraße.

Comment 4

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Looks like solution 1 did the job - Google Maps says that's at the corner of
> Pfungstädter Straße and Waldstraße.

Google Maps works for Germany since a year or so. Problem was resolved until Thunderbird 1.5.