77990 - non-ASCII Account name becomes garbled

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 77967

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect, P2)

Description

[Håkan Waara]

My name, in the account manager is usually "Håkan Waara". That is, the From
field is always "Håkan Waara". However, after my update of my trunkbuild today -
it is always "HÃ¥kan Waara" no matter if I change it back.

It seems like the account manager is ignoring my pref, or reading the value
incorrectly.

This is nearly a blocker for me, if it can't spell my name right then I'm
somewhat disabled to email!

Do you guys know anything about this?

Comment 1

[Håkan Waara]

also, this breaks other's filters based on my name as a rule. :(

Comment 2

[laurel]

*** Bug 78165 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Jure Repinc (JLP)]

Does this depend on bug 23943?

Comment 4

[Jure Repinc (JLP)]

CCing myself.

Comment 5

[Håkan Waara]

Good news: I have a workaround for you.

1. Search on your harddrive for prefs.js.
2. Open your prefs.js file with a text-editor
3. Change it like this:

user_pref("mail.identity.id2.fullName", "HÃ¥kan Waara");
to
user_pref("mail.identity.id2.fullName", "Håkan Waara");

and do that for all your identities (id1, id2, id3 etc.)

So this seems to be a one-time thing. But it was really painful till I found the
workaround.

Comment 6

[Koike Kazuhiko]

Japanese characters are also converted as a garbage.

(1) Open Account Setting dialog.
(2) Enter "Your Name" text in Japanese code.
(3) Hit OK and reopen the dialog. "Your Name" text is displayed as a garbage.

A Japanese user reported 2001042609/Win32 didn't have this bug.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.gr.jp/show_bug.cgi?id=870

Comment 7

[ji]

This is a dup of 77967.

Comment 8

[Håkan Waara]

This bug has more info. I'll just dupe that bug against this...

Comment 9

[Håkan Waara]

*** Bug 77967 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Håkan Waara]

Bringing over tracking info, keywords and target milestone et al. Cc people from
the duplicate.

Comment 11

[ji]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77967 ***

Comment 12

[ji]

Marked it verified.

Comment 13

[Håkan Waara]

!@#