User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1 When I import my outlook express address book, which contains characters from several different non-unicode characters sets, all characters outside my system's local codepage get lost (translated or replaced by question marks). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Place some entries into an outlook express address book containing the some of the following characters (here in UTF-8): Icelandic Thorn Þ, japanse ビ－ル, chinese 如琪 2.import the address book 3.look for the charactes in question Actual Results: The offending characters were replaced by question marks. (Thorn was replaced by a T, a common translation) Expected Results: Imported the characters correctly without replacing them (using unicode?)

(In reply to comment #0) Sorry the character listed as chinese is also in the japanese set, this one however isn't: 壢

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This is still most certainly a bug. I had to copy my address book by hand, even after trying to import a UTF-8 or UTF-16 CSV files. As far as I know only the LDIF format supports all character sets while importing. There are other bugs reports which are a duplicate of this one but I can't mark them as such.

*** Bug 272344 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 280655 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

bug confirmed when importing from outlook express and also from any text-file (csv,ldap...) encoded in UTF-8. This bug also occurs when EXporting from TB-address-book to a file (ldif,csv,txt), if foreign characters used in address book (eg. Contact-NAME=ΑΩΠ).

related Bug 117236

maybe also related bug 207156 is this still on?