314477 - cyrillic characters in mailto: command are not processed correctly when external windows mail client is used

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 227268

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[lvm]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050910 SeaMonkey/1.0a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050910 SeaMonkey/1.0a

Windows XP SP2 box with Outlook 2003 SP1 (not outlook express!) used as a mail client - exchange server and all that. External mail handler is enabled in mozilla by setting network.protocol-handler.external.mailto config string to yes. Clicking on mailto: link in mozilla creates a new outlook message but all cyrillic characters in mailto: string are garbled. Looks like mailto: string is passed to external mail handler in UTF-8 encoding while outlook expects a single-byte string in default system codepage (set to 1251) - cyrillic capital A (0xc0 in codepage 1251) is replaced with 0xd090 and so on. Both Opera and Internet Explorer do not have this problem. 

Bug 305745 suggests always using UTF-8 for mailto: and although it is still NEW, this is exactly what happens and should not happen in my configuration. Maybe an option should be added control use of unicode or single-byte encoding for mailto.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on mailto: link with cyrillic characters

Actual Results:  
each cyrillic character is replaced with two characters (garbled UTF-8)

Expected Results:  
cyrillic characters should be passed in codepage 1251

Comment 1

[shattered]

dup of bug 227268 IMHO.

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

yup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227268 ***