80371 - Unable to create a subfolder of a non-ascii folder on the Local tree

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 39757

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[marina]

**** observed with 2001-05-11-04 build ****
Steps to reproduce:
- select a non-ascii folder on the Local tree;
- go Folder| New folder;
- enter a name for the subfolder ( it doesn't matter ascii or non-ascii name);
- click Ok to close the dlgbox;
//note: you are not able to do so, only dimiss it by Canceling
( it doesn't happen with the ascii folder on Local and it doesn't happen with 
non-ascii subfolder on IMAP, you can create a subfolder for a non-ascii folder 
on the IMAP account fine)

Comment 1

[nhottanscp]

I think this is a regression from NS6. IQA, please check when this started to
happen.

Reassign to putterman, any related changes around local folder name since NS6?

Comment 2

[marina]

forgot to mention: it applies only to non-ascii folder that has an encoding 
different then the system one.

Comment 3

[marina]

it doesn't happen in NS6 RTM

Comment 4

[nhottanscp]

>it applies only to non-ascii folder that has an encoding
>different then the system one.
That's not really supported. Reassign back to me.

Comment 5

[marina]

but we supporting the creation of a folder with different charsets on the
Local..? then why not a subfolder?

Comment 6

[nhottanscp]

No, that for imap only, not for local folder, I don't think that's supported.
I found the bug, it's a dup of bug 39757.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39757 ***

Comment 7

[marina]

in 39757 the problem was ( and it does look like the same one) about folder
naming to be non-os dependant but itlooks like it is not now! i can creat a
folder on the Local account with any charset ( i couldn't before...) Does that
mean that bug # 39757 is fixed and we have to extend the fix for subfolders?

Comment 8

[nhottanscp]

Not likely..., you want to try other cases (i.e. non Latin1 folder on Latin1 OS).

Comment 9

[marina]

so EN system and Greek folder name is not qualified..?

Comment 10

[nhottanscp]

Basically, the code is not written to support them (there is a limitaion to one
charset, i.e. system are not always support unicode file name).
I agree that it's confusing if it works for somecases and not for others. But
it's not suppose to work, that's all I can say.

Comment 11

[marina]

then let's call it a miracle: on my english system i can create all sorts of
folders on the Local account ( russian, greek, japanese...:-)

Comment 12

[nhottanscp]

It's not persistent, once you quit the app and relaunch, the folder are gone.

Comment 13

[marina]

verified as such