565672 - Importing an ICS file with international charcters fails

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Calendar :: Import and Export, defect)

Description

[pboedt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-CL; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100423 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Lighthing 1.0b1, thunderbird 3.04

For example, i can create an on a Webcalendar server which is called  Yasuní...
It is saved well.
When i do a refresh of the romote calendar it fails to read the ICS file.
If the calendar contains an event with a non standard ascii character í ú ñ .... it fails to read the remote calendar.
(using the latest stable version of Thunderbird and Lightning for Ubuntu)

This only happens when the ics file (provided by the calendar server) is saved in iso8859-15

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. publish an event on remote calendar server which contains an international caracter in the eventname or description
2. the event is published well
3. try to do a refresh of the calendar in lightning, the calendar cannot be reloaded.
The remote calendar file is published in an ics file iso 8859-15 encoding

Another way to reproduce:
1. export calendar from lightning in ICS
2. change encoding of ics file from utf->iso8859
3. try to import the ics file = fail
Actual Results:  
nothing imported, no calendar reloaded

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Please ensure that the content of the ics file is correctly stored in the UTF-8 character encoding as required in the iCalendar specification (RFC 5545).

Comment 2

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

No response from reporter. Resolving as invalid per previous comment.