451021 - Mac OS X Address Book has erroneous spaces in display name when either (or) both of first and last name are blank

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Attachment: The fix

The processing in the Mac OS X Address Book always assumes that first or last name will be filled in. This causes problems where one of them isn't:

* Neither first or last filled in, display name is " "
* First only filled in, display name is " last"
* last only filled in, display name is "first "

This is in the first name first case.

I noticed this whilst testing bug 243631/bug 381555 so we definitely need to fix it.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Mark, but why I get the email address inside the contact sidebar, when both names are missing? I just ask because of bug 446129 which I'm unable to reproduce. So bug 446129 is a dupe now?

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Mark, but why I get the email address inside the contact sidebar, when both
> names are missing? I just ask because of bug 446129 which I'm unable to
> reproduce. So bug 446129 is a dupe now?
> 
See the comment I just put on that bug.

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Patch checked in, changeset id 136:e0d649f4e7c8

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Looks good with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/20080819030054 Shredder/3.0b1pre ID:20080819030054