From: Kai Hendry (hendry@aplixcorp.com)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2008 - 16:31:59 CDT
Apologies for the potential repost. I don't think my original got through.
After a call today with an Opera employee, he informed me rightly that
many handset manufacturers are unprepared for the license cost of
fonts with a wide Unicode glyph coverage.
This led me to fear a "region locking" scenario of mobile devices. Any comments?
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From: Kai Hendry <hendry@aplixcorp.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:38 AM
Subject: Unicode on mobile devices
To: unicode@unicode.org
Since new Web growth is "predicted" to happen on mobile devices, I
have been naively looking into i18n tests for charsets and Unicode
glyphs. Idea is, you can buy a phone that passes this imaginary
Unicode Acid test and you would then know it should have basic support
for reading your culture's language.
http://dev.w3.org/2008/mobile-test/test.html
The good news from my little survey with contacts in Asia, UTF-8 seems
to be gaining popularity (in Japan/Korea) compared to "legacy"
encodings except perhaps China: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB2312
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBK
So assuming utf8, I wondered if it was then worthwhile to test for
certain popular/key glyphs?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_Internet_users
I believe the age old argument that all/most of the glyphs can't be on
a mobile device no longer holds, with memory being so inexpensive.
Anyone have any rough ideas how much storage space the most complete
glyph collection would take? Perhaps I am wrong. :)
Any helpful pointers would be great. Thanks for your time,
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