304789 - Fails to open attachments with norwegian (non-ASCII) characters in filename

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[kmaraas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nb-NO; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6

I've tried sending myself attachments with norwegian characters (æøå) in the 
filename and it fails to open correctly in Firefox. Tried this using two 
different webmail solutions and I always get the dialog asking which 
application to open the document with. I tried by creating a word document with 
the name "fil med ø.doc".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Save a word document with filename: "fil med ø.doc"
2. Send it to a webmail user
3. Try to open it from the webmail interface

Actual Results:  
Dialog asking what to do with this document.

Expected Results:  
Should identify the document as a word document and propose the default handler 
for that type of document.

This also happens under Fedora Core 4/rawhide with the latest Firefox release 
there.

Comment 1

[kmaraas]

Apparently IE has problems with norwegian characters. Trying with Firefox. The
filename was "fil med ø.doc"

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

For which webmailer does this happen? Does this also happen if put such a file
on a server and you try to download it? Perhaps the server uses the wrong
content-type for .doc files.

Comment 3

[kmaraas]

I don't think it's got anything to do with the content type since it presents 
other .doc files (without non-ASCII characters) correctly. This was tried on 
different systems (Sun Java System Messaging Server, and Critical Path 
Communication Suite and Hula, previously Novell Netmail).

Comment 4

[kmaraas]

Tried again with firefox-1.1-0.2.8.deerpark.alpha2 and it seems like it's fixed
now. Could have been a distro packaging/mime type configuration issue...

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Works or me is the correct resolution here.