Exchange Server Active Sync - character encoding issues
I'm using an iPhone 3GS with an Exchange Server 2003 backend. On the iPhone, in the inbox view (small preview of every mail), the mail looks fine. As soon as I enter the mail, all special (non-ASCII) characters look broken.
To give an example: In the "list of e-mails" view, "äöü" in the mail body looks like "äöü" in the small preview. As soon as I enter the mail, the mail body looks like "äöü".
It's not a problem with the mails themselves: I've tried it with utf-8 encoded mails as well as with iso-8859-1 mails: Both look fine in Outlook, in IMAP clients (Thunderbird, Alpine, ...) and in Outlook Web Access. It's just the iPhone mail application that displays the non-ASCII characters incorrectly, and it only does that when looking at the full mail, not in the preview.
(Technical: On byte level, "ä"(UTF-8) = "ä"(ISO-8859-1) = C3 A4. So to me, it looks like the iPhone gets a correct UTF-8 stream from Exchange (independent of the encoding of the original mail) and then -- for some strange reason -- interprets this UTF-8 stream as ISO-8859-1.)
To give an example: In the "list of e-mails" view, "äöü" in the mail body looks like "äöü" in the small preview. As soon as I enter the mail, the mail body looks like "äöü".
It's not a problem with the mails themselves: I've tried it with utf-8 encoded mails as well as with iso-8859-1 mails: Both look fine in Outlook, in IMAP clients (Thunderbird, Alpine, ...) and in Outlook Web Access. It's just the iPhone mail application that displays the non-ASCII characters incorrectly, and it only does that when looking at the full mail, not in the preview.
(Technical: On byte level, "ä"(UTF-8) = "ä"(ISO-8859-1) = C3 A4. So to me, it looks like the iPhone gets a correct UTF-8 stream from Exchange (independent of the encoding of the original mail) and then -- for some strange reason -- interprets this UTF-8 stream as ISO-8859-1.)
iPhone 3G S, iPhone OS 3.1.2
