Re: Moz 1.7.13 won't attach files with funny characters in name

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Moz 1.7.13 won't attach files with funny charac...
\ Paul B. Gallagher (12 Feb 2008)
. \ JAS (12 Feb 2008)
. . \ Paul B. Gallagher (12 Feb 2008)
. . . \ David McRitchie (23 Feb 2008)
. . . . \ Paul B. Gallagher (27 Feb 2008)

Subject:	Re: Moz 1.7.13 won't attach files with funny characters in name
Group:	Mozilla-general
From:	Paul B. Gallagher
Date:	27 Feb 2008

David McRitchie wrote:

> "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg> wrote in message
> news:Ibudnal7_5GyaSzanZ2dnUVZ_hCdnZ2d...
>
>> JAS wrote:
>>
>>> Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone else noticed this?
>>>>
>>>> I tried to attach and send a file whose name contained the character
>>>> "Ü" and all seemed well until I clicked the "Send" button. At that
>>>> point, Mozilla popped up a message saying it couldn't find the file --
>>>> but the file name it quoted didn't have the umlaut. (It had taken it
>>>> into its head to look for "Ubersetzungen" instead of "Übersetzungen,"
>>>> so no wonder it couldn't find it.)
>>>>
>>>> Is there a fix or a workaround (other than renaming the file with
>>>> "Ue")?
>>>>
>>>> AFAIK "Ü" is in the ANSI Western character set (position 220), so it's
>>>> not like I'm trying to send a Hindi or CJK character or something...
>>>>
>>>> In case it's relevant, my default code page under Win2K SP4 is
>>>> Cyrillic (Russian), where the character at this ANSI code point is
>>>> "Ь." And if I substitute that character in the filename, I seem to be
>>>> able to send it to myself without difficulty.
>>>>
>>>> TIA
>>>
>>> Ü using Alt 0220
>>> using Windows XP PRO
>>
>> Not sure what you're trying to say, can't see how it helps...
>>
>> Could you give me a complete sentence to work with?
>
> I would try %DB (hex form) instead of Ü in the filename.
>
> What was in the last reply was the keyboard shortcut
> to produce the Ü using Alt+0220 (must be typed
> on the numeric keypad), but that is the problem that
> you are asking about, it is not the solution to entering
> a filename that got converted such that the letter became a U..
> <http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/rexx/htm/symbols.htm#htmlsym>

I'm sure that'll work in the sense that it'll keep the computer happy,
but the result (especially if there's more than one funny character) is
a filename that turns to gibberish for the end user.

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Paul B. Gallagher
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