992179 - simple-prefs preference of type file does not handle non-ASCII characters properly

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Peter Nilsson]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_2) AppleWebKit/537.74.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.2 Safari/537.74.9

Steps to reproduce:

1) Create add-on with simple-prefs preference of type file.
2) Install add-on and open preferences.
3) Click on "Browse..." button and choose a file where the path contains non-ASCII characters such as å, ä or ö (Swedish characters, which is what I have tested). For this example, let's assume the path was "/home/user/åäö/file" for Mac OS X and Linux or "C:\Users\åäö\file" for Windows.
4) Inspect file name next to the "Browse..." button. Also programmatically inspect contents of the preference, or inspect using about:config.


Actual results:

Mac OS X:
Value next to "Browse..." button is "/home/user/aao/file".
Value found in about:config is "/home/user/aao/file".
In both places the diacritics have disappeared, transforming "åäö" into "aao".

Linux:
Value next to "Browse..." button is "/home/user/aao/file".
Value found in about:config is "".
In the first place the diacritics have disappeared, transforming "åäö" into "aao".
In the second place the value of the preference has gone missing altogether.

Windows 8:
Value next to "Browse..." button is "C:\Users\åäö\file".
Value found in about:config is "".
In the first place the diacritics have disappeared, transforming "åäö" into "aao".
In the second place the value of the preference has gone missing altogether.



Expected results:

For all platforms, the value next to the "Browse..." button should be exactly the path which I selected using the file browser dialog, and the value found in about:config should be exactly the same.

Comment 1

[Peter Nilsson]

Excuse me. I posted too hastily.

Actual results for Windows 8 should be:
Value next to "Browse..." button is "C:\Users\åäö\file".
Value found in about:config is "".
In the first place the path is correct.
In the second place the value of the preference has gone missing altogether.

Comment 2

[Tomislav Jovanovic :zombie]

i believe this is a platform (toolkit? AOM?) issue, and not an SDK one, we just set up inline options via <setting> elements, no code from the SDK is run when a pref is set.

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

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