![]() ![]() ![]() In that dialog you can change the name and the icon of the connection. That will get you this dialog (that you've likely never seen before because clicking on the icon isn't intuitive). If if bugs you too, you can Right Click on the network icon near your click and "open Network and Sharing Center" then click on the ICON that represents your network. I've filed a feature request with Windows (it's not a bug per se, but rather what appears to be an ambiguous spec that makes everyone look bad, IMHO). Since the iPhone is assuming that the encoding is UTF-8 while the rest of folks are assuming ASCII, we end up with "Scott’s iPhone." President" even smart folks can mess this up. Just as I mentioned in my post on " Why the #AskObama Tweet was Garbled on Screen: Know your UTF-8, Unicode, ASCII and ANSI Decoding Mr. However, Apple iOS devices default to yourname's iPhone where the quote ' is a smart quote like this ’, so Scott’s iPhone. Most APs and Operating Systems assume that the string will be straight ASCII and code page 1252. First, the 802.11 wireless specification doesn't say anything about the character encoding of the SSID (Service Set Identifier - the think that names your access point). I'm not sure what's changed in iOS5 but one problem still exists and the other has gotten worse. I often use my iPhone as a Personal Hotspot. ![]()
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