as some of you might now, there is a "global" i-mode site
featuring specs released for Europe: -> http://i-mode.nttdocomo.com
hopefully you find an answer.
best, jansan.
> 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
>
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