304321 - exported bookmarks from firefox have wrong umlauts, reimporting them by IE

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[jet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6

exported bookmarks from firefox have wrong umlauts after reimporting them to IE


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.generate a bookmark.htm with german umlauts
2.import it to IE


Actual Results:  
you see 

Expected Results:  
show the correct umlauts

if you want to do a browser-independent exchange or organisation of bookmarks
which are using languages with umlauts there is no way then to use the
microsoft-product.

Comment 1

[Cortechs]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.10)
> Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.10)
> Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6
> 
> exported bookmarks from firefox have wrong umlauts after reimporting them to IE
> 
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.generate a bookmark.htm with german umlauts
> 2.import it to IE
> 
> 
> Actual Results:  
> you see 
> 
> Expected Results:  
> show the correct umlauts
> 
> if you want to do a browser-independent exchange or organisation of bookmarks
> which are using languages with umlauts there is no way then to use the
> microsoft-product.
> 

I have the same problem as described above with the French version running on Linux and windows XP SP2. None of the crazy french characters are exported well and that's since the first version of Firefox/Mozilla v. 1.4 up to 2b1.

But i found out that it was a problem with the bookmark manager which bookmarks the the page you are watching in wichever charset set it is set on (could be utf-8, iso-8859-15,iso-8859-1, ...) to a predifine local charset (utf-8 in my case). 

This means:
The bookmark manager take the "meta name="Description"" as is, no matter wich charset the page it set up on. 
Then, the bookmark manager paste the "content="what ever there is here"" in firefox/mozilla wich most times doesn't match the different charset of our local firefox.
Finally, when we export our bookmarks, we end-up with a file set to utf-8(for me) and a bunch of descriptions not formated for this specific charset.

I hope i didn't confuse everybody with my explanation.

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 3

[Cortechs]

Still having the same problem with version 2.0.0.4 of Firefox and import function of IE7

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

still valid with 3.5 and IE8

Comment 5

[u88484]

This bug was reported using a version of Firefox that security and stability updates are no longer provided for.  All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3 by selecting 'Check for Updates' in the Help menu or by going to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html

If you can no longer reproduce this bug using the latest Firefox 3.0.x version, please change the status of this bug to 'RESOLVED' 'WORKSFORME'.

If you can still reproduce this bug, please provide additional details to help resolve this issue.

Comment 6

[Marc Weidner]

Still valid with 3.5 RC3 and IE 7 on Windows Vista.

Comment 7

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

bumping affected version based on comments 4 and 6.

Comment 8

[buovjaga]

It now works with crazy Finnish umlauts FF 50.1 -> IE 11 (Win 10). Closing