356397 - ICS Import fails with CAL_UTF8_DECODING_FAILED when importing an event that contains a UK Pound (£) symbol

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 334657

(Calendar :: Import and Export, defect)

Description

[Keith G]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

The following event is an example of this error:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Randy L Pearson//NONSGML Outlook2vCal V1.1//EN
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VEVENT
CREATED:20040829T163323
UID:00000000EBFAC68C9B92BF119D643623FBD17E1424312000
SEQUENCE:1
LAST-MODIFIED:20060615T231158
DTSTAMP:20040829T163323
ORGANIZER:Unknown
DTSTART:20011004T141500
DESCRIPTION:Please bring £1
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Church
CATEGORIES:Church Events
SUMMARY:Test Event
PRIORITY:1
DTEND:20011004T141500
RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=1SU,3SU,5SU
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Save the above event to a file (UTF-8 encoded).
2. Import to a calendar or connect remotely using WebDav and file:///

Actual Results:  
Pop-up box appears with the text...

"There has been an error reading data for calendar: Test Event. It has been placed in read-only mode, since changes to this calendar will likely result in data-loss.  You may change this setting by choosing 'Edit Calendar'.

Error Number: CAL_UTF8_DECODING_FAILED
Description: An error occured while decoding an iCalendar (ics) file as UTF-8. Check that the file, including symbols and accented letters, is encoded using the UTF-8 character encoding."

Expected Results:  
The event should import without error, and the description field of the event should read "Please bring £1"

Tested on linux with Sunbird 0.3a2 and WinXP with Sunbird 0.2.

Comment 1

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Bug 334657, bug 338415 and bug 173039 cover this problem (ICS files being not entirely encoded in UTF-8 as required in the RFC and appropriate error handling).

Comment 2

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 334657 ***