Re: Unicode on mobile devices

From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven (asmodai@in-nomine.org)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2008 - 03:30:05 CDT

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    -On [20080430 10:12], Kai Hendry (hendry@aplixcorp.com) wrote:
    >You could just email them. ;)

    Of course, but text message pricing in Europe and Asia is not as, pardon me,
    braindead as it is in the United States. So when you're on the move without
    a computer close by messaging like that makes a lot of sense.

    >Just to be clear, my test aim was is to read foreign text. Not input
    >methods. That's a whole different kettle of fish.

    Sorry, I meant to say, directly and indirectly, that:

    1) we're region locked due to various features the phone offers (amongst
       which are the t9 dictionaries)
    2) due to these dictionaries the fonts supported are also limited to the
       languages offered by the dictionaries.

    I think my current mobile phone would have problems with Cyrillic and
    perhaps even some Slavic languages with specific diacritics.
    This Sony Ericsson W810i I have here does support the following
    characters/symbols:

    . ? ! , : ; - ' " / ( ) + * = \ @ & % < > # <CR> ¶ _ £ $ € ¢ ¥ § <character
    with just the bottom half of §> © ® ¤ ¿ ¡ | [ ] { } ^ ` and 5 smilies

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