#38 Certain characters in Mozilla not translated properly to IE

[Richard Ames]

Bookmarks created in Mozilla Firebird (0.7) show up as
Favorites in IE with %! in place of pipe (|). I think
something similar to this was reported on the Yahoo
group before things were moved here, so I thought I'd
bring it back up again.

Pipe (|) shows up fine in view.php and the client
bookmark list.

[Richard Ames]

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Also looks like forward slash (/) comes across to IE as %-.

[Daniel Gehriger]

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That's because IE stores the bookmarks as files, the
bookmark name being the file name. Since "|", "/", "?" and so
on are invalid characters in Windows file names, BMS has to
replace them by something else.

[Richard Ames]

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That makes sense (kicks self for asking). I guess removing
the characters (like IE does) wouldn't be an option - or
would it?

Maybe I'll just remove them myself to avoid the issue
completely...

Thanks.

[Daniel Gehriger]

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No, removing the characters wouldn't be an option. SyncIt
has to be able to translate the encoded chars back to the
original ones. Otherwise, the next time you sync, you'll get
the same bookmarks, but w/o these characters, on the
Mozilla/Netscape clients as well, in addition to the original
ones...