597764 - iCal ics calender will not import if – ndash 8211 is used instead of the - minus 8722

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Calendar :: Import and Export, defect)

Description

[bugzilla.mozilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.62 Safari/534.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18pre) Gecko/20080917 Sunbird/0.9

After the calender would not import I deleted events until I found the one that did work.  Once all the – ndash 8211 were removed the file imported fine.
The reason I was not using the latest version is that importing didn't work at all.  The 0.9 version actually gave me an error:

Error getting calendar
Unable to read from file:C:\Salem.ics
[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)
[ns]ScruptableUnicodeConverter.convertFromByteArray]"  nsresult: "0x8000ffff
(NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)"  location: "JS frame::
file:///C:/Program%Files%20(x86)/Mozilla%20Sunbird/components/calItemModule.js - >
file:///C:/Program%Files%20(x86)/Mozilla%20Sunbird/js/calIcsParser.js :: ip_parseFromStream ::
line185" data:no]

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Import C:\Salem.ics

Actual Results:  
Error getting calendar:
Unable to read from file:C:\Salem.ics
[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)
[ns]ScruptableUnicodeConverter.convertFromByteArray]"  nsresult: "0x8000ffff
(NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)"  location: "JS frame::
file:///C:/Program%Files%20(x86)/Mozilla%20Sunbird/components/calItemModule.js - >
file:///C:/Program%Files%20(x86)/Mozilla%20Sunbird/js/calIcsParser.js :: ip_parseFromStream ::
line185" data:no]

Expected Results:  
Calendar should import.

I was able to fix this by replacing all the – ndash 8211 in the Salem.ics with the - minus 8722

The Salem.ics does not have the number or the actual word ndash or 8211.  I am just referring the the character code.

The reason I consider this a Major problem is online iCal calendars cannot be imported if they have these characters in them.

Comment 1

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

Could you upload a testcase calendar? I believe only certain UTF8 ranges are allowed in the value part of an ics property, but ndash should allowed.

Comment 2

[bugzilla.mozilla]

Attachment: iCal File that has the ndash in it.

This file was modified to preserve confidentiality.
In Line 23:
     SUMMARY:Special Event – In the Kitchen - See the card 
The first - is an ndash, once removed the file can be imported.

Comment 3

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

You need to ensure that the file is using the UTF-8 character encoding if you are using non-Ascii characters. If you convert the attached sample file from Ascii character encoding to UTF-8 character encoding the import will work fine.

Comment 4

[bugzilla.mozilla]

What would I tell the webmaster of the site in order for him to understand this.  It is not my calendar, just one I would like to be able to have in Sunbird.

Comment 5

[bugzilla.mozilla]

Attachment: UTF-8 Encoded file

iCal File UTF-8 encoded with ndash in it.

Comment 6

[bugzilla.mozilla]

See (UTF-8 Encoded file)  I get the same results.

Comment 7

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

Attachment: UTF-8 Encoded file -v2

The UTF-8 file you attached is still latin1 encoded. Please take a look at this file, it is correctly encoded.

You could tell the webmaster that not using utf8 is not valid for .ics files and that he must make sure the right content-type header is sent (i.e Content-Type: text/ics; charset=utf-8) and that the file actually contains utf-8 characters.

Comment 8

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

I propose to resolve this report as INVALID.