on 02.3.21 5:44 PM, Curt Sampson at cjs_at_cynic.net wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, dc wrote:
>> It's interesting how they left out japanese font support on the Euro
>> models - so all the japanese i-mode sites can't be viewed by roamers :(
>
> Shift_JIS and ISO-8859-1 are not compatable; if they'd kept the
> Japanese, all those nice squiggly bits near letters that those
> silly Europeans are fond of would turn into nasty little Japanese
> messes.
>
Charset Metatags could have been specified:
ie. <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;CHARSET=x-sjis"> for
Japanese otherwise whatever European code they use as default.
They probably thought it was not worth the trouble. Unfortunately for a more
multilingual world.
Vincent J. Luna, Director
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Received on Thu Mar 21 14:06:46 2002