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Paul Keating
June 14th, 2007, 04:30 PM
Did you have a non-ascii character such as æ in your folder name?
Thunderbird is not good at Unicode. I haven't had the problem you describe,
but there are chunks of Thunderbird written by programmers who live in a
96-character world that fail to call OemToChar() when they should.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guerri Stevens" <guerri (AT) tapcis (DOT) com>
To: "Google Dixonary" <dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 11:02 PM
Subject: [Dixonary] OT: Subfolders in Thunderbird


>
> Anyone else here using Thunderbird? I thought I had done this before:
> set up subfolders underneath my Dixonary folder and moved definitions
> and votes received into the subfolders. But when I tried it this time,
> Tbird would not show me the subfolders! Maybe my memory on this is
> faulty, but I am almost positive it used to work.
>
> --
> Guerri
>
>

Guerri Stevens
June 14th, 2007, 07:03 PM
No, neither the parent folder nor the subfolder had any non-ascii
characters. In fact, as an experiment I tried creating a test subfolder
named "test" and that didn't work either. The only other thoughts I had
were that maybe I had to exit from Tbird and re-enter after creating the
subfolder or that perhaps it was time to "compact" the folders for
whatever reason there might be for that. Hmm, I was trying to move
messages, and maybe move doesn't work but copy does. I will experiment
later.

I suppose it's possible that the one or two messages I tried may have
contained non-ascii characters, but that should not have mattered. Tbird
would not display the subfolder name at all.

Guerri

Paul Keating wrote:
> Did you have a non-ascii character such as æ in your folder name?
> Thunderbird is not good at Unicode. I haven't had the problem you describe,
> but there are chunks of Thunderbird written by programmers who live in a
> 96-character world that fail to call OemToChar() when they should.