RE: Unicodeless WAP?

From: Reynolds, Gregg (greynolds@datalogics.com)
Date: Tue Jan 18 2000 - 09:27:33 EST


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mg [mailto:mgunn@egt.ie]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 6:57 AM
>
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> (2)
> Urgent question: is it true that WAP systems are shaping up
> to ignore the
> Unicode Standard?

Doesn't look like it to me; see page 18 of
http://www.wapforum.org/what/technical/SPEC-WAEOverview-19991104.pdf:

<q>
International Support
The document character set for WML is the Universal Character Set of
ISO/IEC-10646 ([ISO10646]). Currently,
this character set is identical to Unicode 2.0 [UNICODE]. There is no
requirement that WML decks be encoded
using the full Unicode encoding (e.g., UCS-4). Any character encoding
("charset") that contains a proper subset of
the logical characters in Unicode may be used (e.g., US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1,
UTF-8, Shift_JIS, etc.)
</q>

"WML" is Wireless Markup Language. See also page 22, Section 7.6,
"Internationalization". Looks like they want explicit markup of encoding
and language.

But that's the spec; I have no idea what's happening in actual products.

-gregg



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