290001 - Loacal files inside directories with characters like á,é,í,ó,ú won´t load.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 233201

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Felipe Brahm [souFrag]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

When opening a local file like:

C:\Documents and Settings\souFrag\Configuración local\Temp\temp.html

I get this error:
===
The file C:\Documents and Settings\souFrag\Configuraci%F3n local\Temp\temp.html
cannot be found. Please check the location and try again.
===

This happens because of this character: ó

(Windows XP Professional SP1 in Spanish)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a directory like C:\áéíóú\
2. Create a file temp.html
3. Try to open this file by double clicking it.

Actual Results:  
I get this error:
===
The file C:\Documents and Settings\souFrag\Configuraci%F3n local\Temp\temp.html
cannot be found. Please check the location and try again.
===

Expected Results:  
Display the file temp.html

Many people using WinXP in spanish had told me they have this same problem...
but not with IE :-)

Comment 1

[Robin Monks]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233201 ***

Comment 2

[bugmenot]

Attachment: Error message

Comment 3

[bugmenot]

I've noticed the same bug too. If I try to open a file whose path contains special characters such as å, ä and ö, I get the error message (see attachment). It's annoying bug since desktop is 'työpöytä' in Finnish, so Firefox can't open any files from my desktop.

I've noticed that if I drag'n'drop the file from desktop (or some other folder whose name contains special chars), Firefox opens it. But not with double clicking.