448116 - Unicode (kanji, etc.) names of bookmarks not displayed

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[David Delorme]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

Unicode (kanji, etc.) names of bookmarks are not displayed. The field always remains blank.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[David Delorme]

Bookmark any Japanese website as tenki.jp. The name of the website does never appear even if I edit it in properties.

Comment 2

[Justin]

Importing my Bookmarks from Safari runs afoul of this too. It won't import bookmarks/bookmark folders with Unicode characters in the names.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

can you post better steps to reproduce?
i see a name saved for tenki.js, but i don't have a good font to represent japanese characters.
Please try to reproduce with current 3.1 beta.

Comment 4

[David Delorme]

You can try any Japanese web site, the name properties of the web site, if using Japanese kanjis, will be blank.
For instance:
http://kakaku.com
http://www.alc.co.jp/
I have tried with 3.1 beta 2 and it was blank as well.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Attachment: screenshot of bookmarks panel

like this? looks like it's working here...

Comment 6

[David Delorme]

Attachment: Screenshot of v3.0.5

Your attachment in comment 5 gives a perfectly result: you may indeed consider the issue solved in this release. Congratulations!
FYI, in v3.0.5 (I uninstalled the 3.1.beta2), I have the name of the tab, the name and description of the property as blank as highlighted in red in the attachment.

Comment 7

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Could be a font issue in your OS?
hwv my screenshot is 3.1b3 on Vista.

Comment 8

[David Delorme]

I am still on XP.
FYI, this issue is a regression compared to Firefox v2.
Which fonts do you use from Firefox v3?

Comment 9

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Can you still reproduce in Firefox 3.5.2?

Comment 10

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode or a fresh profile? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 11

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

no further feedback, pretty old bug.