iPhone's Mobile Safari: Special Characters

Question

The iPhone app I'm working on uses html help files and special characters such as

  ü  and ê

are being mangled my iPhone's mobile Safari. Anything I can do to correct this?

Answer 1

If you're using XHTML, ensure that the content of your files really is the encoding specified in the doctype. If you're using just plain HTML, consider using XHTML instead, or

• Use HTML entities (e.g. é)
• Use the META tag to specify an encoding

Answer 2

Have you tried using numerical character references? Alternatively, perhaps you can use a <meta http-equiv="content-type" ... element. Also, maybe there's a better way to tell mobile Safari the character encoding of HTML files (equivalent to the server's HTTP Content-Type header)