470700 - Attachment save as fails if path includes "non-standard" characters (i.e. "ščž")

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Aleš Zemljak]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ca; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.18 (20081105)

When I tried to do a Save As of an attachment in a mail I've received, I've created some new folders one included "non-standard" characters "š" and "č" and then tried to save the attachment to one of the new subfolders, just created, but it failed. I got a message saying that something went wrong.
The exact message says: "It's not possible to save the attachment. Please check the name of the file and try again later."
The exact text of the Warning Dialog I get might differ, because I'm not using the English version of Thunderbird.
The attachment was a pdf file. Which did include characters "š" and "č", although it seem to have no influence of the success of the save command.
When I changed the name of the folder with "č" and "š" to something without these non-standard letters, and without changing the name of the file attachment (leaving "š" and "č" in the file name), the save was successful, although the file name was altered: The letter "č" was replaced by the character "c".

I apologize for not checking this on the latest nightly build, but I don't have enough space to install a recent nightly build just to try and reproduce the bug.
I have checked if someone ever already reported something similar and have found nothing.

I've tested it several times on Windows XP SP3 Home Edition (in German), Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (20081105) - Catalan-Valencian (Català-Valencià) version. The results were identical every time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to "Save as..." a mail attachment with the letters "š" and "č" occurring in the file name. 
2. When the Save as... Dialog appears, create a subfolder (or more) so that in the absolute file path there is a folder that includes the characters "š" and "č" in it's name.
3. Click Save button to save file.
Actual Results:  
A MessageBox/Dialog appears saying: "It's not possible to save the attachment. Please check the name of the file and try again later." in the according language of the Thunderbird version.

Expected Results:  
File saved as has been specified.

Not yet checked on a latest nightly build, but not found anywhere on BugZilla.
Tested on:
Windows XP SP3 Home Edition (in German), Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (20081105) - Catalan-Valencian (Català-Valencià) version.

Save was later successful when renaming the subfolder with "š" and "č" in the name to something without these characters, but the name of the file was altered: The file name itself included "š" and "č" as well and the character "č" was replaced by "c" without notice or user confirmation.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Try a recent build from one of these sources:
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 2

[hansen]

Can't reproduce this bug.
I'm running Thunderbird 0.2 and 1.0 in a Danish environment with æøå-letters.

Maybe you're using the "Readonly Attachments" extension? Or other extensions?

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

 Aleš ,

could you try with a recent 3.0 build and tell us if it works for you ?

Comment 4

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Reporter, as suggest in comment #3, could you try to see if it still happens with
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/ ?

Comment 5

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

WFM  using STR in comment #0 and release

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5pre) Gecko/20091018
Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0pre ID:20091018031417

2.X is a security fix and maintainance branch it's very
unlikely that what fixed this bug ends up backported to the 2.x branch.