469702 - Thunderbird "First start" window shows unicode characters incorrectly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Tomasz Sałaciński]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111217 Fedora/3.0.4-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20081204 Thunderbird/3.0b1

Hello,

I've just tried Thunderbird 3b1, and there is one issue that still exist: on the account creation dialog, it tries to get the user's full name from the system, but fails to do that if the name contains non-ascii characters. My name is Tomasz Sałaciński, while in thunderbird it shows it like this:

Tomasz SaÅaciÅski

It seems it parses this as ISO or something, not as UTF-8.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Rename your users name to use non-ascii characters
2. Open thunderbird for the first time
3. Watch your name corrupted while trying to create new account
Actual Results:  
Name is corrupted.

Expected Results:  
Name should be ok.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Well we had bug 394901 for mac, but I think there's already a bug about linux too.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I couldn't see a dupe, though I do have a fix, I'll attach a patch and move to the appropriate locations tomorrow if I get time.

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I've raised bug 469797 for the issue (which is actually toolkit), but keeping this bug here will let us track it within Thunderbird for now.

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Fixed by the checkin on bug 469797.