297572 - mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote is ignores when it contains accentuated characters

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[bugzilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050610 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: version 1.0+ 20050609 nightly

If I use a character with an accent in mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote, such
as "ó", that field appears empty in the reply header.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use the following user.js
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 3);  
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_ondate", ""); 
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote", "%s escribió"); 
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_colon", " :"); 

2. Reply to a message


Actual Results:  
The quoted message was preceded by:

:

Expected Results:  
It should have been:
Author Name escribió :

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This is happening because the prefs file is actually written out in UTF-8 
encoding; if you're editing the file by hand, you need to use a UTF-8 editor.

The simpler way, since you're already using a trunk build, is:
  Tools | Options | Advanced | Config Editor

Enter "reply_header" in the Filter field, then edit the preferences directly 
from that window; if you type an accented o there, it will be stored correctly, 
and used correctly.