374806 - "\r\n" displayed explicitly instead of a line break in installer's alert windows

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 373972

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

Attachment: Screenshot (Fx 2.0.0.3 pl)

The \r\n in the FileError_NoIgnore string in override.properties is displayed explicitly in the dialog window instead of breaking the lines.

Steps to reproduce
1. Put a dummy read-only file C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
2. Start the installer, click Next until you see the message

Actual results
1. Broken error message

Expected results
1. A normal error message

This has been submitted to Polish community forum by a WinXP user, and I can confirm this happening on Vista.

Comment 1

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Rob, 
that's the FileError_NoIgnore string, http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.8/search?string=FileError_NoIgnore, called in from MessageBox at 
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.8/source/toolkit/mozapps/installer/windows/nsis/common.nsh#1898
I didn't find any insightful documentation at 
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/makensis.htm#MessageBox, but I guess that's assuming to be a single line string?

Comment 3

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

v.