Closed Bug 37510 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

[i18n] filter description file migration needs UTF-8 conversion

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect, P3)

defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED WONTFIX
Future

People

(Reporter: nhottanscp, Assigned: alecf)

Details

(Whiteboard: [nsbeta3-])

6.0 will store filter description file as UTF-8.
4.x used file system charset instead, so need charset conversion for migration. 
It is the same kind of charset conversion applied to prefs.js.
marking m17.
Summary: filter description file migration needs UTF-8 conversion → [i18n] filter description file migration needs UTF-8 conversion
Target Milestone: --- → M17
I actually just checked in changes to make 6.0 filters actually read the filter 
NAME as utf8.

we are dropping filter descriptions though, so you can ignore that.
giving my i18n bugs to alecf.

thanks alec.
Assignee: sspitzer → alecf
this is good, I think I've mostly done this already :)
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
I may need bienvenu's help on this one - I can't figure out where filter
upgrading comes from.
never mind, I found what I'm looking for.
For future reference, this is in nsMsgFilter.cpp in
nsMsgFilter::ConvertMoveToFolderValue
as does the filter criteria values (in another bug)
alec, do we need to fix the for B3?
yeah
Keywords: nsbeta3
moving to M18.
Target Milestone: M17 → M18
there's no filter description in filters anymore.
Target Milestone: M18 → Future
Alec, does that mean we do not migrate filters?
I think what Alec said is the "Description" field/attribute of a filter is no
longer in a filter (record). In other words, the migrated filter will not
have the description field.
I think the filter description will stay in the filters file, but there's no
user-visible display of the descriptioion.

There's another bug about the filter name being migrated, which I think may have
been fixed by now
per i18n/mail triage meeting. This bug has been marked as
nsbeta3-.
If by filling in a name for the filter which is there, filtering
function works, then that should be OK.
If the function is totally disabled, then submit with new
sets of data.
Keywords: relnote
Whiteboard: [nsbeta3-]
It seems unclear to me whether this bug requires either of a "developer" or 
"user" release note for Netscape 6 RTM. If anyone feels it does, can they please 
draft one and then nominate with the relnote-user or relnote-devel strings in 
the Status Whiteboard.

Thanks :-)

Gerv
actually, I'm marking this WONTFIX because we've basically dropped filter
descriptions.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Verified Wontfix.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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