64579 - Searching for intl chars in news doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

I'm trying to search on my newsserver for a subject that contains danish chars 
and it doesn't work.
I'm searching for "еее" thats three å
The command mozilla is sending is:
0[343ff0]: Sending: XPAT SUBJECT  1- *ГҐГҐГҐ*

The main that it should be finding has the following subject:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?N=E5=E5=E5?= ja.. det virkede da =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C9N?=   dag!

but it doesn't find it.

Comment 1

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Yes, searching through accented characters seems to be
failing but I am not yet convinced that even searching
ASCII characters work all that well.

Try a newsgroup like the following:

dk.kultur.film

with search using accented characters as well as
ASCII characters and see how successful you're.

BTW, you need to have set the following pref item
to 'Western (ISO-8859-1)'.

Edit | Prefs | Mail & Newsgroups | Message Display | Languages |
Character Coding

If this turns out to be an internationalizatiom bug, then
it should go to taka or nhotta.

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

reassigning to naving

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

*** Bug 93040 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[ji]

There is another bug logged for this. (bug 91975)

Comment 5

[Henrik Gemal]

*** Bug 91975 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[ji]

Copied comments of [e-mail] in bug 91975 about news server unicode
query support:

This is probably possible when servers start to accept unicode for a query. Here
is a draft.
http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-nntpext-base-13.txt

Comment 7

[ji]

Nominating for nsbeta1.

Comment 8

[nhottanscp]

Implement the proposed draft is an enhancement, but I don't think that is nsbeta1.

Comment 9

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 118339 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[nhottanscp]

http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-nntpext-base-15.txt

Comment 11

[marina]

*** Bug 143277 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[nhottanscp]

*** Bug 163793 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 14

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

getting jcranmer on this since this might be related to news code in some way..

Comment 15

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Definitely related to news code (XPAT encoding), but I'm not easily able to confirm it here, as my knowledge of i18n news servers is slim.

Comment 16

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

I've tested this with basic western characters on three different servers I have access to (I don't see any messages that use, e.g., Arabic or CJK characters on these servers), and it worked on all three of them without problems.

This is with Thunderbird 3.0 on Linux.