392625 - Category names with non-word characters get saved incorrectly in prefs.js, thus breaking color coding

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 321010

(Calendar :: Calendar Frontend, defect)

Description

[Jay Rossiter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: 0.7pre (2007081705) with Thunderbird 2.0.0.7pre (20070816)

Category names that contain non-word characters followed by spaces get saved incorrectly in prefs.js.  This breaks color coding because the view can't locate the expected category name.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a category named "Holiday / Vacation" or "Work - Teleconference" with a color applied
2. Create an event using one of those categories
3. View in week/month/etc. view - the colors are broken
4. View prefs.js or about:config
Actual Results:  
Category is saved as "calendar.category.color.vacation_/ holiday"

Notice the fact that the space trailing the / was not converted to an underscore.  This occurs with many non-word characters.

Expected Results:  
Non-word characters such as slash, dash, etc. should not break category names in prefs.js

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Seems related to Bug 355874 and maybe Bug 321010.

Comment 2

[gekacheka]

Does this still occur in recent nightlies since bug 412258 was fixed?
Patch just submitted for bug 321010 (part1: illegal chars) should address any other chars that cause the category style rule to fail.