304498 - Can't open local file with Unicode filename

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 263570

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Brian Kell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

I have a file on my hard drive named "Росавиакосмос - Публикации.htm". If I
drag-and-drop this file into Firefox, I get an Alert that says "The file
/E:/Brian/HTML/????????????? - ??????????.htm cannot be found. Please check the
location and try again." If I use File | Open File, I get an Alert that says
"The file /E:/Brian/HTML/_____________ - __________.htm cannot be found. Please
check the location and try again."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Name a file with some Cyrillic letters (probably any Unicode will do, I'm
guessing).
2. Try to open it in Firefox.

Actual Results:  
Firefox can't open the file; apparently it replaces Unicode characters with
question marks or underscores somewhere, and whaddya know, that new filename
doesn't exist.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should open the file.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 263570 ***