294446 - Can't open html files from the windows explorer if they contain special/international characters (äöü etc.)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 188383

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tom Link]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

When I try to open a html file that contains a special character from the
windows explorer, FF complains that it couldn't find the file. In the error
dialog the special characters are replaced with their encoded %00 equivalents.

I'm pretty sure that this is a dupe, though I didn't find anyone that really
seemed to fit (from my perspective). But I really can't imagine that nobody has
stumbled over this bug yet. But as this is also a long standing problem I
finally decided to file a new bug entry nevertheless.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a html file containing a special character (say "büä.html")
2. Open this file via the windows explorer (e.g., by double clicking on it)

Actual Results:  
Error: File cannot be found.

Expected Results:  
Open the file.

Comment 1

[Tom Link]

Attachment: Error dialog (screenshot)

Comment 2

[Tom Link]

> I'm pretty sure that this is a dupe

I meant duplicate.

Comment 3

[Marco Perez [:mpk]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 188383 ***