From: Zoltan Dezso Date: 2007-07-13T18:21:09+09:00 Subject: Re: running a huge site John Joyce wrote: > Hey Zoltan, don't worry much longer, > a few phones on the japanese market now display normal sites via Opera. > Thanks to the new pressure from iPhone you can expect handset makers > and service providers in Japan to be changing soon. > The special emoticons too are going to be thrown out or standardized, > there is already some translation of them between providers (not much > unfortunately). > But Unicode support has been a big problem in Japan and not just on > mobile sites, normal web sites as well. > Unicode support has been driven largely by Apple and Microsoft in > Japan, even though the JIS standards organization pushed to get SJIS > (shift-JIS) included as part of the Unicode standard. It's coming. > faster than W3C initiatives. Luckily, market pressures on handset > makers in Japan is always strong so they've been fairly agile in > meeting demands. (they've got great engineers who work late every day) Hi, John. My view is that what is happening here is exactly the opposite. Unicode is supported by almost all newer phones and it is time to slowly phase out SJIS. On the other hand, emojis are not only not going away, they are just getting worse. And by worse, I mean a lot. Recently softbank rolled out phones that support an entirely different set of emojis than before. They finally "standardized" their emoji sets to use the same kind of system as the other carriers. Previously they had a 5-byte character (a wtf in itself), now they have a SJIS character. That coincides with SJIS characters from other carriers. Anything is faster than W3C standards, but there's still hope we can see something :) As for the engineers working late every day, my opinion - strictly biased - is that those engineers should stop working late. Everyone would be much better off that way. But on a cheerful note: http://shindaita.stiq.net/rdoc/mobile_on_rails/ This made my day, hopefully others will find it useful too. Zaki -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.