Emails with 8-bit characters are sent with charset GB2312 (Chinese)

Can the default charset be changed somehow?

I don't think so. It sounds like a major bug. Could you send me a test message -- I'd like to see it myself (tom at bluesky dot org).

Then I wrote the second one using the Italian keyboard, and it worked.

Are you are able to make the characters å, ø, æ, œ, or ß with the Italian keyboard? These might force the charset into Latin-1 or UTF-8, because I don't think GB2312 can't represent them.

I hit the same bug :

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312; format=flowed; delsp=yes
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 5A345)

or :

Content-Type: multipart/signed;
boundary=Apple-Mail-3231-306567886;
micalg=sha1;
protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926)
(...)
--Apple-Mail-3231-306567886
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=ISO-8859-1;
format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Another one is correct :

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 5A345)

Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 5A345)

Try updating your firmware to 5A347. Please see this thread for procedure.

Hopefully that'll do it...

What (default) language is your iPhone set in?

Tom Gewecke and I went back and forth some ten days ago checking out charsets when I changed the default language of my iPhone, which may or may not have something to do with the bug that you're experiencing.

(I do French, English, German & Traditional Chinese on my iPhone, the first three of which all go through as UTF-8 and the Chinese big5-hkscs. I haven't tried Italian, though.)

Message was edited by: eccparis

Same thing :

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (5A347)
Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 5A347)


My language is french

New FW 2.01 seems to fix the bug :

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (5B108)
Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 5B108)

Oups. no ! Still the issue :

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Objet : GB2312 iPhone
De : blabla@titi.net
Date : 5 août 2008 10:13:55 HAEC
À : blibli@toto.net
Message-Id: <C626A660-D4CE-4BA6-BEA9-40F621430528@grr.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 5B108)

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Il semble que le pb soit réglé avec cette version.

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New fw (2.0.2), same problem !

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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (5C1)
Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 5C1)
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too much !

Bonjour Toulouse from Hauts de Seine!

I'm still on 2.0.1 and just did various tests:

If my iPhone is set in English, German or French, and if I removed the Traditional Chinese part of my mail signature, then I get

Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=GB2312;
format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (5B108)
Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 5B108)

BUT if I kept the Traditional Chinese part of my mail signature (along with the French, English & German), then I get

Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=big5-hkscs;
format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (5B108)
Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 5B108)

"big5-hkscs" being the Traditional Chinese charset for Hong Kong.

However, this was clearly not the case with firware 2.0, when Tom Gewecke and I went back and forth and ascertained that if I changed my iPhone setting to non-Chinese, then mails were sent in UTF-8 even when I kept the Chinese part of my signature.

I'm going to send a feedback to Apple right now, and hope you'll do the same if you haven't done so already.