Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, 2008-06-30 12:21 -0700: > > On Jun 30, 2008, at 18:16, Julian Reschke wrote: > > > >> I personally dislike the idea of intermediates recoding, but that doesn't > >> mean it doesn't happen... > > I have heard anecdotes of some Japanese portals transcoding various > things to Shift-JIS, but only at about third hand, and I've never > actually encountered this. -Tim I can attest to it being the case that transcoding was done in the past for certain services within networks of some Japanese mobile operators, but I can't say I know whether it's still happening or not. I think it was more of an issue for e-mail than for their browsing services. I seems to still be the case that many or most e-mail client apps (MUAs) on handsets deployed in Japan don't support UTF-8 (only ISO-2022-JP and Shift-JIS and maybe EUC-JP). --Mike -- Michael(tm) Smith http://people.w3.org/mike/ http://sideshowbarker.net/
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