481821 - Kanji named attachments names are corrupted when downloading on IE6

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 328628

(Bugzilla :: Attachments & Requests, defect)

Description

[eric-rc-holcomb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 3.2.0

On Japanese XP Sp 2 with IE 6, I download an attached file with a Japanese name. When the file is downloaded, the name text is corrupt.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upload an attachment (from XP, any browser) with a name in kanji
2. Either directly clicking on the attachment link or doing it from the "details" page is the same, so click the download link

Actual Results:  
1) On the download dialog that is displayed, the filename is corrupt.
2) Hit the "save" button on the dialog and the filename is clobbered in the editable text field showing where to download the file. 

Expected Results:  
The filename will be preserved as it was when uploaded.  This is the behavior under both FireFox and Opera.

Yes, this does appear to be IE6 not properly recognizing UTF8 attachment names.  Yes, there is a work-around (edit the name in the save dialog).  That all said, IE is, overall, still the biggest player on the block and especially so in Japan.  As such, even if for no other reason than information, I felt the need to report this issue.

I hate being asked to fix problems in other people's product too... just sayin...

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Hey, thanks for the report. Yes, this is indeed a bug in IE6--I think it's even been reported before. IE6 now has less than 20% market share, and is quickly disappearing, so I'm not that worried about this. I'd suggest trying IE7 and see if it handles the situation better.

Comment 2

[eric-rc-holcomb]

Just checked IE7 (another guy's machine) it shows the same problem.
FYI...