Closed Bug 280655 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

improper recognition of non ASCII characters when importing contact list from Outlook

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Address Book
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 254118

People

(Reporter: pioterus, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0

The Address Book component can't import correctly all fields from contacts I
exported from Outlook, which contain Polish specific characters. It happens
irrespective of which character encoding I use for the data file (cp1250 -
default, iso8859-2 or utf8)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open import dialog box in Address Book
2.Select the file


Actual Results:  
1.View strange characters in the field selection box
2.View the same characters in my new address book

Expected Results:  
Try to recognise the encoding automatically
or better
ask the user for encoding type used in the file
Summary: improper recognition of non ASCII characters when importing contact list → improper recognition of non ASCII characters when importing contact list from Outlook
Duplicate of bug #254118
This is a duplicate of bug 254118 based on reporter's comments.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 254118 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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