Re: Best smart phones & apps for diverse scripts?

2010-11-26 Thread Christopher Fynn
On 29/10/2010, Don Osborn wrote: > What do users of this list find to be the most Unicode friendly smart > phones? Apps for those phones? Best input systems for texting beyond ASCII > (and potentially multiscriptly)? I use a Nokia N900 which runs a pretty well full-fleged version of Linux (Debian

RE: Best smart phones & apps for diverse scripts?

2010-10-30 Thread Peter Constable
: Saturday, October 30, 2010 2:00 PM To: Leonardo Boiko Cc: Deborah Goldsmith; Ed; Don Osborn; Unicode Mailing List Subject: Re: Best smart phones & apps for diverse scripts? On 30/10/10 02:45, Leonardo Boiko wrote: > Only UTF-16 though, which brings SMS’s already appaling low 160/140 >

Re: Best smart phones & apps for diverse scripts?

2010-10-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 30/10/10 02:45, Leonardo Boiko wrote: Only UTF-16 though, which brings SMS’s already appaling low 160/140 character limit to a measly 70. Sorry for going off topic here, but this means that new emoji (emoticons) code points for Unicode 6.0.0 are going to be very costly, being as it is that

Re: Best smart phones & apps for diverse scripts?

2010-10-29 Thread Luke-Jr
On Friday, October 29, 2010 08:45:05 pm Leonardo Boiko wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 22:27, Deborah Goldsmith wrote: > > iPhone 4 supports Unicode in SMS messages. Furthermore, the SMS standard provides for Unicode in messages: > Only UTF-16 though, which brings SMS’s already appaling low 160/

Re: Best smart phones & apps for diverse scripts?

2010-10-29 Thread Leonardo Boiko
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 22:27, Deborah Goldsmith wrote: > iPhone 4 supports Unicode in SMS messages. Furthermore, the SMS standard > provides for Unicode in messages: Only UTF-16 though, which brings SMS’s already appaling low 160/140 character limit to a measly 70. Not a problem if you’re writ

Re: Best smart phones & apps for diverse scripts?

2010-10-29 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
iPhone 4 supports Unicode in SMS messages. Furthermore, the SMS standard provides for Unicode in messages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS I haven’t encountered any problems sending Unicode SMS messages on AT&T in the US. Debbie On Oct 29, 2010, at 8:13 AM, Ed wrote: > That's an interesting

Re: Best smart phones & apps for diverse scripts?

2010-10-29 Thread Ed
That's an interesting question Don. I recently bought a so-called "ChiPhone" (Chinese phone) which has message catalogs and input methods for English, Français, Español, Português, Italiano, Deutsch, Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Indonesia, Türçe, Tiếng Việt, русский язык, Arabic, Persian, Romanian, ไทย,

Best smart phones & apps for diverse scripts?

2010-10-29 Thread Don Osborn
What do users of this list find to be the most Unicode friendly smart phones? Apps for those phones? Best input systems for texting beyond ASCII (and potentially multiscriptly)? Thanks in advance for any feedback. I'm back in the US and in the market for a new phone, and if I pay for high-end,