Re: [tlug] Re: KDDI cellphones and encoding

[Curt Sampson <cjs@??>]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Jim Breen wrote:

> > > Here's what happened, though,
> > > when I forwarded a message from my DoCoMo phone to my PC. 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:
> ...
>
> My bet is the server.

I'm with you on that one.

> A pity they don't/didn't do on-the-fly conversion for WWW pages
> heading towards keitai. The microbrowser only handles Shift_JIS and
> content providers have to fall into line.

This is truly annoying, since this is the sole reason we (at Starling)
have had to add encoding conversion to our web framework. (Internally
we do everything in UTF-8, and also serve that to PCs and non-Docomo
keitai.)

cjs
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