(keitai-l) Re: European i-mode

From: Gustaf Rosell <gustaf_at_xpedio.com>
Date: 03/21/02
Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020321132728.01f92b40@dogfood.xpedio.com>
At 09:44 2002-03-21, you 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.

The character set for international i-mode is to become UTF-8. So far it is 
only said like this in the spec...

"charset=TBD"

Currently it is actually partly an issue of typefaces in the phones and how 
to handle emoji/accessskeys figures.

For international i-mail, it is already UTF-8.

/gustaf

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