does anyone know if and how the euro i-mode handsets handle emoji?
i like Curt's idea of using a vendor-specific area of unicode,
but i'd like to know what really happened.
as an aside, i find it really disappointing to hear that the euro i-mode
handsets don't support japanese fonts.
the phone browser could have easily detected a "charset=Shift_JIS" meta tag
and shown japanese characters.
and would the extra ROM space for the full character set really cost much?
-rolf
Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> writes:
> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:37:55 +0900 (JST)
> From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
> Subject: Re: European i-mode
>
>
>
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Gustaf Rosell wrote:
>
> > The character set for international i-mode is to become UTF-8.
>
> Cool. Unfortunately, web sites in Japan are going to have to deliver
> Shift_JIS for years, to remain compatable with old phones. Whether
> they will gear up to provide UTF-8 instead to those phones that
> are capable of it, I don't know. But knowing the Japanese; I rather
> doubt it; they don't seem to care much about making Japanese-language
> Internet content work well outside of Japan. (The widespread lack
> of character-set-encoding specifications on Japanese web pages is
> a case in point.)
>
> Actually, I suppose the gateways could always convert for the old
> phones.
>
> > Currently it is actually partly an issue of typefaces in the phones and how
> > to handle emoji/accessskeys figures.
>
> I'd think this isn't a big problem; Unicode does have a vendor-specific
> area for things like this. Or who knows; if European i-Mode is also
> offering these characters and take-up is as good there as it was
> in Japan, these would likely be added to a future version of the
> Unicode standard.
>
> > For international i-mail, it is already UTF-8.
>
> Cool. I hope one day that docomo fixes their gateway to accept and
> convert UTF-8, as it does with ISO-2022-JP and EUC-JP. Right now
> UTF-8 e-mail produces mojibaka, or at least it did when I just
> tried it.
>
> cjs
Received on Fri Mar 22 22:49:32 2002