(keitai-l) Re: The x-sjis conspiracy...

From: rolf van widenfelt <rolf_at_pizzicato.com>
Date: 07/17/01
Message-ID: <3B53ECC3.99609D95@pizzicato.com>
perhaps there is no reason to panic here...

DoCoMo says that their handsets only handle the shift_jis encoding, so it
doesn't matter
what you set it to, right?
maybe in the future it will matter, but currently, setting it to x-sjis doesn't
seem to
cause any problem.

-rolf

> 
> Guys,
> 
> while checking around I wondered why I found
> this meta-tag quite often at english i-mode sites:
> 
> WRONG: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=x-sjis">
> 
> Basically, this one is plain WRONG. If a Japanese handset
> sees this meta tag, it simply ignores it and defaults to the
> default, which is "Shift_JIS". So the right meta-tag must be:
> 
> RIGHT: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Shift_JIS">
>

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Received on Tue Jul 17 10:35:47 2001