545096 - attendees field shows only weird icons when trying to edit an event

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 534045

(Calendar :: Provider: GData, defect)

Description

[A. Vollmerhaus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.266.0 Safari/532.6
Build Identifier: 0.61b

I´m trying to deploy a company-wide calendar , using Thunderbird with Lightning and Google calendar provider.
However, if i add an event with multiple attendees, they don´t show up correctly in lightnings editor, this is really a show stopper, as we are not able to add any participants to a event once it´s created.

Somehow the field where the attendees should be listed is just filled with random symbols.

I verified this across multiple (3 i think) installations here.

See picture

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. File an event with more than one participant
2. Try to edit said event
3. Find weird symbols where attendees should be listed
Actual Results:  
see the imageshack picture

Expected Results:  
should have given me a editable list of participants

Comment 1

[A. Vollmerhaus]

Attachment: borked list of participants

Comment 2

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Unfortunate, but this needs to wait until the next release. I might be able to make an intermediate gdata-release that fixes this.

I would be careful when using Google Calendar for business purposes, there are a lot of quirks w.r.t attendees, some of which I can't fix on the client side.