Re: [tlug] Re: KDDI cellphones and encoding

[Wataru Tenga <wtenga@??>]

emiddleton@?? wrote:

> The message was
> > originally sent as UTF-8 to DoCoMo, but was converted to iso-2022-jp
> > either in the cellphone or in DoCoMo's server:
> >
> > Subject: Fw>èéçæé
> > Message-ID: <45e40857.x2$y302twN3@??>
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp"
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >   
> 
> Try sending something with characters that can't be converted to
> iso-2022-jp.

You guys are definitely smarter than me. I sent some Chinese as UTF-8 and
only the characters that exist in Japanese were displayed normally. And when
forwarded from the cellphone, the message was sent as iso-2022-jp.

So with DoCoMo, UTF-8 is OK as long as you stick to Japanese.

-- 
Wataru Tenga, Tokyo