Pocket IE charset/language mapping problem

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H.Stamm - 23 Nov 2005 20:10 GMT

Hi there,

i have a problem with Pocket IE on my IPAQ H6340 running Windows Mobile 2003

Opening our WebMail-Page (standard MS Office XP WebMail) I am unable to open
any emails on my Ipaq. WebMail offers each eMail as links which looks like:

JavaScript:parent.openNewWindow("/exchange/forms/IPM/NOTE/frmRoot.asp?index=0&obj=00000000CB.....

On the PPC all special chars like ",?,& are shown as %20 and so on in the
Pocket IE.

JavaScript:parent.openNewWindow(%20/exchange/forms/IPM/NOTE/frmRoot.asp%22index........

I thinks this is the reason it does not work on the PPC.

Language of the Web Page encoding is 'Western Europe' (also stated in the
pages) and also on the Pocket IE the language is set to 'Western Europe'.

Anybody an idea why the PPC Pocket IE does not display the special chars "
correctly?

Thanks for the help.

Hans

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Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] - 23 Nov 2005 23:20 GMT

Java only has limited support on the ppc and the level of that support
varies with different ppc-os versions.

The best option is to email your mail administrator... many webmail
systems give the user the ability to specify simpler interfaces such as
simple html... don't know about XP Webmail

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

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H.Stamm - 24 Nov 2005 11:11 GMT

Hello

thanks for the help. We have other PPC Clients in our company where this
feature works with Pocket IE. So there is not problem with java itself.

The problem is that Pocket IE maps the parameter string containing " or & to
%20 ascii codes and this does unfortunately not work. If this wrong mapping
have be preventen so that the PPC gets the " & ? it will most probably work.

Any idea how to do this? Thanks a lot for the help.

"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" schrieb:

> Java only has limited support on the ppc and the level of that support
> varies with different ppc-os versions.
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> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

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Tony A. - 24 Nov 2005 13:29 GMT

Which OS version do the clients that work run? I doubt that the
problem is what you think - it is standard practice to represent any
characters that might be illegal in a URL using their ASCII codes,
that should not cause a problem.

> Hello
>
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> The problem is that Pocket IE maps the parameter string containing "
> or & to %20 ascii codes and this does unfortunately not work. If

this

> wrong mapping have be preventen so that the PPC gets the " & ? it
> will most probably work.

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H.Stamm - 24 Nov 2005 15:21 GMT

Hi,

my IPaq an H6430 running MS Pocket PC V 4.20.0 Build 14350 - he it does not
work but i can remebmer that once it worked.

It looks like the javascript below (the one to open an eMail in a new
window) is not executed correctly. if i compare a working PC with the non
working PPC, the only difference are the characters %Ascii. Other javascripts
run run on the PPC as on the PC.

Thanks for the help.

> Which OS version do the clients that work run? I doubt that the
> problem is what you think - it is standard practice to represent any
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> > wrong mapping have be preventen so that the PPC gets the " & ? it
> > will most probably work.

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Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] - 24 Nov 2005 18:57 GMT

The %20 symbol was a problem in the first version of pocketpc,
specifically ppc2000 and it manifested itself as no problem in the
initial loading a url that contained the symbol, but any future action
on that page such as "back" or going to an anchor tag in the same page
would fail as the url was stored with a " " in place of the numeric
reference.

As mentioned, javascript "tolerance" within pie has changed with each os
release and changed very significantly with versions 2003 and above, so,
java _is_ a problem as it will be inconsistant... imho, the best
approach would be to use an older ppc running 2000 such as an ipaq 36xx
to validate sites... anything that runs acceptably on that version
should run on all ppc versions.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

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