341391 - Scrambled words when exporting address book which contains accents

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 299292

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

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Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.5.0.2 (20060516)

For example there is an entry in the address book :

Chloé Vergnaud

Which result in the .ldif file in 

sn: Vergnaud
cn:: Q2hsb8OpIFZlcmduYXVk

Both abook.mab and abook.ldif are identified as "ASCII text" by the 'file' command.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a card with an accent somewhere
2. Export the correspoding address book

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> For example there is an entry in the address book :
> 
> Chloé Vergnaud
> 
> Which result in the .ldif file in 
> 
> sn: Vergnaud
> cn:: Q2hsb8OpIFZlcmduYXVk
> 
> Both abook.mab and abook.ldif are identified as "ASCII text" by the 'file'
> command.

The data you are seeing is base 64 encoded, which means strings that contain accents are encoded to ensure they are just ascii data (which doesn't include accents). This is required by the LDIF RFC specification (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2849.txt?number=2849). 

This is the same as the already marked invalid bug 299292, therefore I'm resolving as a duplicate of that bug report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 299292 ***