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eugene2006
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WAP Cell phone encoding cyrillics

Post by eugene2006 »

I want to see my web pages in CELL PHONE through WAP protocol
but instead of nice cyrillics i get some hebrew text, not readable :(
is there a way to convert cyrillics into WAP text?
foobar
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Post by foobar »

I'm not sure what the policy is, but I'd think that posting the same question on several forums is pretty rude. :?
If that isn't the case here, please say so.

Here is the original thread at DevShed.
Gambler
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Post by Gambler »

I'm not sure what the policy is, but I'd think that posting the same question on several forums is pretty rude.
People, you just keep inventing new netiquette rules, don't you?
"Don't start new thread if there was a similar one 5 years ago."
"Use search to dig out 20-page long discussion on vaguely related subject, instead of asking question."
"Always assign nickname to quotes, since people don't have to remember what they post."
And now "Don't ever post the same questions on two completely unrelated forums."

Let's just prohibit posting new messages altogether. It would solve SO many problems...
Roja
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Post by Roja »

Gambler wrote:People, you just keep inventing new netiquette rules, don't you?
First, notice that foobar did include a link to a relevant topic elsewhere - helping the OP (and others) to focus conversation in one place, instead of having the same points brought up twice. Put another way, it wasn't just a snide comment.

Second, it was not only a valid comment, it was neither snide nor unreasonable.

But I'll answer your question/comment directly: Yes, as time goes on, new etiquette does develop. In this particular case, the netiquette rule in question has been around for over 20 years - since the early days of net news and newsgroups. Here's a link that covers it nicely:

http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html
"Cross-Posting" refers to posting a message to more than one group. If you introduce Cross-Posting to a group, or if you direct "Followup-To:" in the header of your posting, warn readers!
Many of the people on these forums visit other forums - sitepoint is a common example, so is devshed. When visiting multiple forums, you will easily start asking yourself "Didn't I just answer that?", and with cross-posting, you might have!

The forums are here to educate people. To increase the signal, and decrease the noise. The reason these forums are valuable is because they do so. By informing new users of common issues (register_globals, undefined variable, netiquette), we (the users) improve the overall level of questions.

Or put another way, you like being here because the users here encourage better behavior, and as a result, have better, more intelligent users posting.

I do understand the frustration, but going beyond the comfort zone of "zomg, I cnt f1gur out d code", to the level of knowing the right questions to ask, in the right way, on the right forum can be a positive growth experience - and definitely helps everyone by making discussions more intelligent.

Don't discourage positive messages that seek to improve the quality of discussions, please.
eugene2006
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Post by eugene2006 »

so, anyone to help me with WAP UTF encoding problem?
this is source code of WAP section of a website, it shows nice cyrillics
but when i try to do the same i get hebrew :(

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">
<wml>
<card id="card1" title="Anekdotov.Net">
<p>
<a href="2.wml">N E X T</a><br/>
</p>
<p>
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- Командир взвода Козлов. Предъявите документы ...
Водитель:
- Командир взвода кого?!
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Post by Gambler »

Roja wrote:First, notice that foobar did include a link to a relevant topic elsewhere - helping the OP (and others) to focus conversation in one place, instead of having the same points brought up twice.
This is not devshed. This is another forum visited mostly by different people. Slapping users because they posted something on another website adds nothing to effectiveness of this message board, and is not in any sense "positive." On the contrary, such behavior degrades the effectiveness of Internet in general. This is all I have to say about the "issue" of cross-site posting.
I will refrain from commenting on this epitaph of common sense. The forum would smurf most of my comments anyway.

To eugene2006:
What encoding are you saving your files in? If it's something other than UTF-8... Well, you may try specifying different encoding then (for example, windows-1251).
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