Re: Character Set Question (WAP)

>      A basic question for the developers.  In the WAP side of things, 
> all traffic is converted it seems to UTF-8 before being 'compiled'.  Yet 
> the Character Set is being sent to the phone as the incoming one.  Is 
> this the way it should work?  (Or should the Character Set be UTF-8?)  I 
> ask because a specific site (tagtag) sends a Character Set of ISO-8859-2 
> which the end user phones we've tested with don't understand.  Nor does 
> my WapIDE phone simulator.  ISO-8859-1, like what my personal WAP server 
> sends, work fine.  I am just wondering if I could make a patch to send 
> the Character Set as UTF-8 in all cases (or at least those where it's 
> converted first) and not break any rules.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Jon
> 
> P.S.  The web site URL giving me issues is:
> 
>    http://tagtag.com/site/wapdir/index.php
> 
> This is with a GSM handset so you may be able to test and get the same 
> results.  I found the Character Set being sent via tcpdump and ethereal 
> as it's not listed in the debug output from Kannel.

      Looks like it's the Character Set in the <?xml section (ie. 
encoding=) that's causing the problem.  I checked the code and stumbled 
across a TODO.  Guess I'll look into DOing it.  Thanks.

Jon