Sure. If they convert it at the gateway, it is no longer 3byte.
But the basic point - that 10k of sjis or eucjp content is more
content than 10k of UTF-8, remains.
So people who are chunking data into bite sized gobs should be aware
they can send - what - 15k of pure JP text in UTF-8 and it will fit
in a 10k sjis phone cache (ignoring markup and so on).
In addition, unless the gateway handles conversion on a phone by
phone basis, gateway conversion reduces the incentive for operators
to include browsers that are UTF-8 aware, as ALL content will be
delivered to the handset as sjis, regardless of the phone's
capabilities.
Nick
On 10 Jan 2006, at 12:23, Curt Sampson wrote:
>
> That depends. If they convert at the gateway, and they charge you by
> over-air packets instead of TCP traffic volume, it would cost the
> same, the download speed would be the same (assuming your server has a
> reasonably fast connection), and the cache usage would be the same.
Received on Tue Jan 10 06:31:20 2006