87163 - Non-ascii sender name is displayed as dots in From list box on mail compose window

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 86966

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[ji]

*****Observed with win32 06/21 build*****

On mail compose window, non-ASCII chars are displayed as dots in From: field. 

Steps to reproduce:
1. Launch browser with a new profile or with a profile which doesn't have mail
account setup yet.
2. Select Tasks | Mail, account setup wizard comes up.
3. Select ISP account type and click on Next.
4. In "Your name:" field, enter non-ASCII chars, like tëst,
   and fill out all the other info to complete account setup.
5. Login to the account and bring up a mail compose window.
    You'll see the non-ASCII sender name in From: list box is displayed as dots.
6. Go to back to the account manager by selecting Edit | Mail/News Account
Settings, in "Your name:" field, enter "tëst" again and save it. 
7. Now bring up another mail compose window after you correct the identity in
account manager. The problem is gone! The non-ascii chars are dispayed okay in
From: list box.

Comment 1

[nhottanscp]

Could you attach a screen shot?

Comment 2

[ji]

Restarting mail can correct the problem too. It's a regression. 

Comment 3

[ji]

Attachment: A screen shot.

Comment 4

[marina]

i've seen this on yesterday's build when was logging bug about Pretty name
displaying as ???? Close/open Mail solves the problem .

Comment 5

[ji]

At step 6, when you go to account manager right after account setup, non-ASCII
sender name is displayed okay in "Your name" field, but not on  mail compose window.

Comment 6

[nhottanscp]

So it started from today, was it working yesterday?

Comment 7

[marina]

no, it wasn't not working yesterday ( somehow i think it wasn't working for a
while), i noticed it when i was entering the bug on pretty names.

Comment 8

[ji]

I checked 06-19-11 build. It doesn't happen there, so this started from 06/20 
build.

Comment 9

[ji]

All platforms.

Comment 10

[nhottanscp]

Here are check in from 06/18/2001 12:00:00 to 06/19/2001 11:59:00.
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=all&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=&file=&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=explicit&mindate=06%2F18%2F2001+12%3A00%3A00&maxdate=06%2F19%2F2001+11%3A59%3A00&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot

Cc to putterman, was there account manager related change recently?

Comment 11

[nhottanscp]

I can reproduce this with today's debug build on my machine.

Comment 12

[nhottanscp]

I made a wrong query, here are check in from 06/19/2001 12:00:00 to 06/20/2001
11:59:00.
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=all&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=&file=&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=explicit&mindate=06%2F19%2F2001+12%3A00%3A00&maxdate=06%2F20%2F2001+11%3A59%3A00&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot

Comment 13

[nhottanscp]

Cc to racham%netscape.com. Can this be related to your check in AccountWizard.js
and related changes?

Comment 14

[racham]

Changes I have made are related to Copies and Folders settings. Those changes
shouldn't be causing this. 

BTW, is it happening with both POP and IMAP ?

bhuvan

Comment 15

[racham]

Naoki just mentioned to me that it appears OK on account manager settings
window. But compose window stills seems to be a problem. 

Comment 16

[racham]

mail.identity.<id key>.fullName is the pref if needed for records.

Comment 17

[nhottanscp]

Yes, it is saved correctly in UTF-8 (I checked my pref).

Comment 18

[nhottanscp]

I talked to Jean-Francois, this seems to be a dup of bug 86966.
On my local debug build, it always happens for the first mail, the second mail
and later do not have the problem.

Comment 19

[nhottanscp]

Dup of bug 86966, I can reproduce it with ASCII name, "Naoki" turned to "..."
cannot type to the body, the first compose window only.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86966 ***

Comment 20

[ji]

Verified as such.