Hello! A user contacted me regarding special characters (German umlaute) getting mangled when synchronizing with a Sony Ericsson K800. It turned out that the phone, in violation of the SyncML spec, uses ISO-8859-1 encoding of its vCard data. Worse, it does so without adding the CHARSET property. There is a workaround in libsynthesis. It is possible to override the encoding for a specific phone. The attached file can be dropped into ~/.config/syncevolution-xml/remoterules/server/00_sony_ericsson.xml and the default charset for all Sony Ericsson phones will be ISO-8859-1. This is not a proper solution, though: - not all Sony Ericsson phones are broken like that - of those which are, some might use a different local charset I'm uncertain how to address this problem. At the very least we need a configure option which sets the fallback charset, because on a Linux system with UTF-8 it is simply impossible to determine what national charset the user might have on his old phone. Any suggestions? -- Best Regards, Patrick Ohly The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak on behalf of Intel on this matter.