I ran across the following, which I thought might be of interest to the members of this mailing list. -- Eric Hildum ------ Forwarded Message From: Juergen Specht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Nooper.com - Mobile Services - http://nooper.com Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:42:48 +0900 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (keitai-l) The x-sjis conspiracy... Guys, while checking around I wondered why I found this meta-tag quite often at english i-mode sites: WRONG: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=x-sjis"> Basically, this one is plain WRONG. If a Japanese handset sees this meta tag, it simply ignores it and defaults to the default, which is "Shift_JIS". So the right meta-tag must be: RIGHT: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Shift_JIS"> Why is this? Who ever was involved into language encodings, know that this is a very complicated topic: http://rf.net/~james/Japanese_Encodings.txt Above some people complain about Shift_JIS, but this was a decision of DoCoMo and works well for their needs: http://www.nttdocomo.com/i/tag/meta.html Maybe some people wonder why they need this meta-tag, if the handset defaults anyway to Shift_JIS...simply for well formed HTML and for future compatibility with new browsers for the possible european and US based i-mode services (if they ever will start). If this validator does not complain: http://validator.w3.org/ you have good and valid HTML. Who uses the wrong meta-tag? For example official i-mode sites about tokyos nightlife, restaurant information, link selections, i-mode portal sites, company sites from handset makers, learning English sites and so on. Since most of the webmasters of these sites are subscribed members of this list, they can check by themself. But I was curious about the origin of this meta-tag and found out that this is used by default with Adobe GoLive: http://www.adobe.com/products/golive/ (A sidenote: Adobe makes great products, but this site does not even work with Mozilla/Netscape6.1...so much for their knowledge about HTML.) Mhm, GoLive reminded me about something...and thanks to the archives of this list, I found this: http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2000-12/0238.html Seems that somebody will pour a beer over my head the next time he sees me :) Enjoy your search & replace session! Juergen -- Juergen Specht [Nooper.com - Mobile Services Inc.] http://nooper.com For a better i-mode experience. NooperLabs: http://nooper.co.jp/labs/ [ Did you check the archives? http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/ ] ------ End of Forwarded Message To unsubscribe send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macie-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>