Pocket Internet Explorer and Unicode support

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Hi,

How do you force Pocket Internet Explorer to display Unicode html page? I
converted my html page to Unicode ( bytes) in order to display Unicode
characters, but I'm not sure how do you tell the browser to display it? Is
there registry key or any other approach that I'm missing?

Thanks for your help.
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Re: Pocket Internet Explorer and Unicode support by riki

riki
Thu Jul 29 03:16:51 CDT 2004

Sam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do you force Pocket Internet Explorer to display Unicode html page? I
> converted my html page to Unicode ( bytes) in order to display Unicode
> characters, but I'm not sure how do you tell the browser to display it? Is
> there registry key or any other approach that I'm missing?
Why not use UTF8 rather than unicode. I don't know the standard to well
but i'm sure that's they way your supposed to do it.

Nice cross-post. perhaps you could narrow down the post next time, eh?

riki

Works better when plugged in.
ThemeChanger for Smartphone : http://homepages.inspire.net.nz/~gambit/
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Re: Pocket Internet Explorer and Unicode support by David

David
Fri Jul 30 14:02:24 CDT 2004

Unicode is convenient in Windows CE because it natively support only
Unicode.

But the answer is not specific to Windows CE or Pocket PC.

- To make the viewer 'recognize' a Unicode .htm page, add 0xFEFF to the
beginning of the file
- If you are delivering the page from a Web server, be sure to use the
appropriate content-type header

David
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"riki" <see_my_home@page> wrote in message
news:e27sDSUdEHA.2352@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Sam wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How do you force Pocket Internet Explorer to display Unicode html page?
I
> > converted my html page to Unicode ( bytes) in order to display Unicode
> > characters, but I'm not sure how do you tell the browser to display it?
Is
> > there registry key or any other approach that I'm missing?
> Why not use UTF8 rather than unicode. I don't know the standard to well
> but i'm sure that's they way your supposed to do it.
>
> Nice cross-post. perhaps you could narrow down the post next time, eh?
>
> riki
>
> Works better when plugged in.
> ThemeChanger for Smartphone : http://homepages.inspire.net.nz/~gambit/


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RE: Pocket Internet Explorer and Unicode support by saxenamit2001[at]yahoo

saxenamit2001[at]yahoo
Mon Aug 02 04:15:03 CDT 2004

Hi Sam,

Try following for your web page it should work

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Checking Unicode</title>

Regards
Alpha

"Sam" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How do you force Pocket Internet Explorer to display Unicode html page? I
> converted my html page to Unicode ( bytes) in order to display Unicode
> characters, but I'm not sure how do you tell the browser to display it? Is
> there registry key or any other approach that I'm missing?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
>
>
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Re: Pocket Internet Explorer and Unicode support by bm_masri

bm_masri
Mon Aug 02 16:09:50 CDT 2004

Hi all,

Thank you for your help. The problem that i'm facing is my text does
not use Latin characters (Non Ascii). It uses Arabic character with
unicode offset of 0x600. WHen i pass these characters in a page to
the PIE, it does not recognize these characters even though i have the
correct font installed. Any ideas?


"Alpha Siera" <saxenamit2001[at]yahoo.com.[no spam please]> wrote in message news:<5E1E97FE-9F8F-4C0F-9D46-EEF889E1A1BB@microsoft.com>...
> Hi Sam,
>
> Try following for your web page it should work
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
> <title>Checking Unicode</title>
>
> Regards
> Alpha
>
> "Sam" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > How do you force Pocket Internet Explorer to display Unicode html page? I
> > converted my html page to Unicode ( bytes) in order to display Unicode
> > characters, but I'm not sure how do you tell the browser to display it? Is
> > there registry key or any other approach that I'm missing?
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Re: Pocket Internet Explorer and Unicode support by saxenamit2001[at]yahoo

saxenamit2001[at]yahoo
Wed Aug 04 01:27:02 CDT 2004

Hi Sam,

I believe it should work, I am happily working with Chinese and Japenese character sets, could you please post the HTML which you are using ??, so that something can be judged from it. As far as pocket IE is concern it supports Unicode.

Regards
Alpha

"Sam" wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thank you for your help. The problem that i'm facing is my text does
> not use Latin characters (Non Ascii). It uses Arabic character with
> unicode offset of 0x600. WHen i pass these characters in a page to
> the PIE, it does not recognize these characters even though i have the
> correct font installed. Any ideas?
>
>
> "Alpha Siera" <saxenamit2001[at]yahoo.com.[no spam please]> wrote in message news:<5E1E97FE-9F8F-4C0F-9D46-EEF889E1A1BB@microsoft.com>...
> > Hi Sam,
> >
> > Try following for your web page it should work
> >
> > <html>
> > <head>
> > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
> > <title>Checking Unicode</title>
> >
> > Regards
> > Alpha
> >
> > "Sam" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > How do you force Pocket Internet Explorer to display Unicode html page? I
> > > converted my html page to Unicode ( bytes) in order to display Unicode
> > > characters, but I'm not sure how do you tell the browser to display it? Is
> > > there registry key or any other approach that I'm missing?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
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Re: Pocket Internet Explorer and Unicode support by David

David
Mon Aug 09 15:47:49 CDT 2004

Ah, this is a different question: How to have Pocket Internet Explorer show
international characters. The original question was how to make Pocket IE
recognize a Unicode page. Note that the version of Pocket IE that is in
Pocket PC is different from the Pocket IE that comes with Windows CE.

Without marking the page as Unicode, only the first few characters will be
shown and/or there will be spaces displayed in between each letter. However,
if you mark the page appropriately the Unicode characters are displayed
appropriately. With all the standard Pocket PC fonts, Far east extended
characters will be shown as boxes. For example, Japanese letters with a
UTF-8 page are shown as boxes while ansi letters (on same page) are
displayed as expected. The fonts included with Pocket PC don't have all the
characters in them, however, if you install a larger font and specifying
that font in your HTML, they should display.

I can get characters like the Summation symbol U+2211 (offset 0x2211) to
display in Pocket IE using a custom .ttf file. For example:

<font face='My Font'>?</font>

... where the char in between >< is the Summation. It displays the Summation
character using the Pocket PC's browser, but only with that one font.

Install your .ttf file into the \Windows\Fonts folder.

Notice that on the desktop, Windows XP font 'Arial' has Arabic characters --
but not the character at offset 0x0600, which IE 6 will display as a box. In
the Arial font they start at 0x060C (at least on English version of Windows
XP).

David
------
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"Alpha Siera" <saxenamit2001[at]yahoo.com.[no spam please]> wrote in message
news:1F108342-463D-470A-91C0-507B81EA26FF@microsoft.com...
> Hi Sam,
>
> I believe it should work, I am happily working with Chinese and Japenese
character sets, could you please post the HTML which you are using ??, so
that something can be judged from it. As far as pocket IE is concern it
supports Unicode.
>
> Regards
> Alpha
>
> "Sam" wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Thank you for your help. The problem that i'm facing is my text does
> > not use Latin characters (Non Ascii). It uses Arabic character with
> > unicode offset of 0x600. WHen i pass these characters in a page to
> > the PIE, it does not recognize these characters even though i have the
> > correct font installed. Any ideas?
> >
> >
> > "Alpha Siera" <saxenamit2001[at]yahoo.com.[no spam please]> wrote in
message news:<5E1E97FE-9F8F-4C0F-9D46-EEF889E1A1BB@microsoft.com>...
> > > Hi Sam,
> > >
> > > Try following for your web page it should work
> > >
> > > <html>
> > > <head>
> > > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
> > > <title>Checking Unicode</title>
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Alpha
> > >
> > > "Sam" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > How do you force Pocket Internet Explorer to display Unicode html
page? I
> > > > converted my html page to Unicode ( bytes) in order to display
Unicode
> > > > characters, but I'm not sure how do you tell the browser to display
it? Is
> > > > there registry key or any other approach that I'm missing?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your help.


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