466545 - invalid XML characters can be imported into addressbooks cards

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Leni]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4
Build Identifier: 3.0a3

For Thunderbird cards to be represented as XML, they can't contain characters that aren't valid XML characters.  

Not all UTF-8 characters are valid XML.  Here are the characters that the XML standard:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#NT-Char
currently allows:
  Char ::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF]

The Thunderbird Address Book UI won't allow contacts to be created with characters that are invalid in XML.  But Thunderbird Import will, in which case the user gets wierd-looking symbols in the UI.

There's no point allowing wierd characters into a contact that can't be edited and can't be synced.  The right place to fix this is at import time - this is an enhancement request for that.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
The attached .ldif contains a contact with a control-V character in the Notes field.

Look at in the UI - the control-V in the Notes field appears as a wierd-looking box.

The contact can't be synced - at least with any application/service that exchanges data using XML.

Comment 1

[Leni]

Attachment: import this ldif to get a contact containing an invalid XML character