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[tlug] Re: KDDI cellphones and encoding



> Wataru Tenga <wtenga@??> wrote:
> I just sent a message to my wife's DoCoMo cellphone with the following header 
> info:
> To: ************@??
>  Subject: Test =?utf-8?b?6Kmm6aiT5pS+6YCB?=
>  Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 14:02:35 +0900
>  User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5
>  MIME-Version: 1.0
>  Content-Type: text/plain;
> $B (B charset="utf-8"
>  Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> 
> And guess what, she could read the Japanese just fine. Like I said, it's only 
> older models that lack UTF-8 support. I have been working on cellphone 
> software-related work for years, and remember when they started getting 
> Unicode support.

I'm curious to know what actually arrived in your wife's keitai. It
is quite possible that DoCoMo converted the base64/utf-8 block to
Shift_JIS before passing it on.

Jim


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