693561 - Problem opening downloaded files on non-unicode systems

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Mads Navntoft Noe]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Build ID: 20110928221717

Steps to reproduce:

Steps to reproduce:
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1. Launch Firefox with the encoding set to Latin-1. 
   This can be done in Ubuntu by setting the LC_CTYPE and LANG
   environment variables.

   $ export LC_CTYPE=en_US
   $ export LANG=en_US
   $ firefox

   Ensure that en_US is listed when running

   $ locale -a

   If not, generate it using

   $ sudo locale-gen en_US.ISO-8859-1
  
2. Download a file where the filename contains a non-ASCII character.

3. Attempt to open it from the download manager (or directly select
   Open With in the dialog when starting the download).

Tested using Firefox 7.0.1, but applies to earlier versions as well. 
Tested on Ubuntu 10.04.



Actual results:

The application associated with the file type launches, but complains that it can't find the file.

What happens is that the file name encoded in Latin-1 when saved, but the name passed to the helper application to open the file is encoded in UTF-8.


Expected results:

The application should have been passed the file name encoded according to the active locale, in this case, Latin-1.