447606 - cannot send Umlaut files from OpenOffice.org ("Unable to open the temporary file. Check your 'Temporary Directory' setting."

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 332110

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Noèl Köthe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071420 Iceweasel/3.0.1 (Debian-3.0.1-1)
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Hello,

thunderbird has a problem with Umlaute "öäüßÖÄÜ" in filenames when sending them from OpenOffice.
Doing the same steps with a plain ASCII named file it works without problems.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. OpenOffice.org 2.4 -> Extras -> Options -> Internet -> E-Mail -> Enter thunderbird or "/usr/bin/thunderbird" -> OK
2. start/edit/open any file you want and save it with an Umlaut in the filename ex "ä.odt" (or .doc)
3. in OOo -> File -> Send -> Document as email
4. Thunderbird opens a new email with the attachment "ä.odt"
5. Enter Recipient and then send
Actual Results:  
You will get the error:

"Sending message failed. Temporary file /tmp/sv1g1.tmp/sv1g3.tmp/filename ä.odt could not be opened. Check your settings for "Temporary folder".


Expected Results:  
the email will be send like files with just ASCII characters.

I tested evolution to check if its a problem of OOo and with evolution as mailer there is no problem (just "evolution" without any option) with Umlaut filenames of attachments.
Adding and sending Umlaut filenames directly with Thunderbird has no problems.

The file Thunderbird wants to send from the temporary directory is there, readable and correct.

Comment 1

[Noèl Köthe]

Attachment: simple file with an Umlaut in the name

Just in case you need a file with an Umlaut

Comment 2

[Tobias Koenig]

Hej,

the problem is in mailnews/compose/src/nsMsgSend.cpp:AddCompFieldLocalAttachments(), where
the NS_ConvertUTF8toUTF16 returns an empty string, since the passed in URL
is not really an UTF8 encoded url.

No mozilla developer could tell me how to fix that though at the moment :(

Ciao,
Tobias

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Did you try with thunderbird trunk? I think bug 332110 fixed this.

Comment 4

[Tobias Koenig]

Hej Magnus,

yes, it is fixed in trunk, but not in 1.8 branch, therefor I tried to create
a patch for the branch. To my surprise I came to the same patch as suggested
in 332110 :)

So any chance to get that patch in 1.8 branch?

Ciao,
Tobias

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Not likely, especially given bug 332110 comment 11 (that bug will definitely not get ported over). Either way, bug 332110 would be the place to discuss porting the patch, not here.