(keitai-l) Re: iso-8859-1

Hi,

ISO-8859-1 is not identical to the basic ASCII English character set!
The English characters (US-ASCII) are a subset of ISO-8859-1, which 
also contains characters for other western European languages. As far 
as I know the special German and Scandinavian characters are not included in
the basic JIS standard (JIS 0208) even if Greek and Cyrillic
alphabets are, and hence not in shift-JIS. In the supplementary
set, JIS 0212, there are characters called "21 diacritics and symbols"
in row 2, that I suppose are likely to include some commonly
used northern European characters, but shift-JIS does not support
JIS 0212.

Joran
(or I actually spell it Jöran, if your font supports ISO-8859-1 characters!)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Renfield Kuroda [mailto:Renfield.Kuroda@msdw.com]
> Sent: den 27 oktober 2000 01.28
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: iso-8859-1
> 
> 
> All i-mode phones support shift-jis encoding, but iso-8859-1 
> (the basic ascii
> English character set) is almost entirely compatible with 
> shift-jis, so all
> phones support iso-8859-1. Be careful of high ascii and other special
> characters!
> 
> r e n
> 
> 
> "Karl ." wrote:
> 
> > Dear list.
> >
> > I read in the i-mode faq that: "For English characters the 
> standard Western
> > Encoding (ISO-8859-1) is allowed.". Will all i-mode phones support
> > iso-8859-1, if answer is no approximately how many will?
> >
> > Will this require the user of the phone to change language 
> settings or will
> > the browser autodetect meta tags or header info?
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Karl.
> >
> > 
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