(keitai-l) Re: regarding 816SH problem mobile market in japan..

From: Tom Motoyoshi Kalland <tmk_at_infeline.org>
Date: 05/30/08
Message-Id: <49A85EAC-905B-45B4-BE79-A82E67CBC7D1@infeline.org>
Not sure what you use on the server, but in PHP you can use  
mb_convert_kana:

	http://jp2.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-convert-kana.php

Should be similar available for other common server side scripting  
languages.

.tmk


On May 30, 2008, at 01:03 , Curt Sampson wrote:

> On 2008-05-29 14:19 +0900 (Thu), Srinivas Patnaik wrote:
>
>> Is that possible to convert full width katakana to half width  
>> Katakana
>> programmatically at the server side.
>
> Yes. Quite easy if you know what you're doing.
>
> Basically, you have two choices:
>
>    1. Pick up a copy of Ken Lunde's _CJKV Information Processing_ and
>    learn something about I18N.
>
> 	http://www.amazon.com/CJKV-Information-Processing-Ken-Lunde/dp/B00007FYHY/
>
>    2. Pay someone like me several thousand dollars to teach you this.
>
> While there are a lot of things that make developing for keitai
> difficult, from the cultural differences (how people use phones) to
> the cultural-technical (no, we don't use SMS in Japan) to the purely
> technical (it's darn hard to test on a Japanese phone when you're  
> not in
> the country!), this particular question falls in to the, "anywhere in
> the world, you could have learned it if you'd wanted to" category.
>
> This question isn't even really Japanese-related; you could hire a
> developer who knew Unicode and had dealt with any two of: Western
> European, Greek, Turkish, Cyrillic, Bengali, and innumerable other
> alphabets; and he'd understand what to do.
>
> cjs
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Received on Fri May 30 04:51:09 2008