311371 - While using the palm sync extension the german Umlaute will not transfer correctly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 310290

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Sven Luzar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915
Build Identifier: thunderbird-1.4.de.win32.installer.exe (=1.5b1)

If you sync a contact from a Palm to the Thunderbird 1.5b1 Program, then the
characters ä, ü, ö, ß will not transfer correctly. In the Thunderbird Program
you will see a small symbol with the text “obj” on it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install
http://thunderbird.dnsalias.net/downloads/beta/1.5b1/thunderbird-1.4.de.win32.installer.exe
2. Install the Extension
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/extensions/palmsync/1.5b1/palmsync.xpi
3. Change the Sync Options at HotSync to "Handheld overwrites Desktop"
4. Start a Sync
Actual Results:  
The Thunderbird shows the Characters ä, ö, ü, ß like small boxes with the label
"obj".

Expected Results:  
The Thunderbird should show ä, ö, ü, ß Characters like ä, ö, ü, ß Characters.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This is a character set issue, duping to bug 237624

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 237624 ***

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

this is in fact not a dupe of bug 237624. It is a regression starting with thunderbird 1.5. (As Sven indicates the 1.4 German version is equivalent to thunderbird 1.5b1.)