756496 - Uninstall fails for W2MO® app (due to odd character in app name?)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 751177

(Firefox Graveyard :: Web Apps, defect)

Description

[Andrew Williamson [:eviljeff]]

The W2MO® app installs fine but on uninstall fails via control panel in Windows (silently).  I suspect its the ® ( (R) symbol)

Comment 1

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

This sounds like a duplicate of bug 751177. Tim - Can you confirm?

Comment 2

[Tim Abraldes [:TimAbraldes] [:tabraldes]]

This is almost assuredly a duplicate of bug 751177

Andrew, try the following:
  1) Using notepad, open the "webapp.ini" file that exists in the app's install directory
  2) Use "File->Save As" and replace the original, but be sure to set the encoding as "Unicode" (Note: After doing this the app will fail to launch, so you might want to back up webapp.ini)
  3) Try running the uninstaller again

Comment 3

[Andrew Williamson [:eviljeff]]

Yes, that did it.  
(btw the shortcut remained on the desktop)

Comment 4

[Tim Abraldes [:TimAbraldes] [:tabraldes]]

(In reply to Andrew Williamson [:eviljeff] from comment #3)
> Yes, that did it.  
> (btw the shortcut remained on the desktop)

That's because another INI file ("shortcuts_log.ini") contains info about which shortcuts to remove, and suffers from the same Unicode woes.