Information about Unicode enabled Mobile phones in specs.

[Hariram]

Unicode's contribution for Internationalisation/localisations is great and countless.

 

Now a days Mobile Phones are developing as Mini Computers and hundreds of applications are bundled in them.

 

Many models of Mobile phones are Unicode/UTF8 compatible and provides lot of utilities like SMS, Email, Web browsing, chating, social networking like facebook, bilingual/multilingual dictionaries, transliteration/translation tools etc. in Mobile Phones in Most of the Unicoded scripts/languages of world.

 

Many mobiles provides above facilities in Indic Scripts - Devanagari, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati .....etc. also. However No mobiles yet found in any market with facility in Oriya Script.

 

But, about availability of Unicode enabled Scripts/languages, no any informations is found in the specifications of the mobile phone models made available at the websites of the manufacturers.

 

For Example :

At

http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-c5-00/specifications

 

No any information is found that

whether this set is Unicode/UTF8 compatible or not?

Which languages are available in this handset?

 

Likewise in the specifications described at websites of other Mobile phone Manufactures and reviews posted at different websites/ forums generaly does not include any information about the facilties Unicoded Scripts supported.

 

So the User/customer/reseller/dealer is confused and can't find correct handset with required language/script facilities.

 

So it is requested to all the Unicode authorities, Unicode List members to

take necessary action by putting up in different forums about

the need of making it mandatory/necessary to include informations

about the Unicode/UTF8 compatibility

and facilities of IMEs/utilities available for languages/scripts in the

specifications of the mobile handsets

published at websites/brochures etc.

 

Please forward this to concerned telecom authorities, manufacturers, forums

in International Interest.

 

With regards.

 

Hariram

 

 

 

[Hariram]

Oriya Unicode is first time released in Windows 7 and works fine. Therefore, iPhone works in compatibility.

 

So, in earlier version of Windows i.e. win.xp Oriya is not possible.

 

In Next release of Mac OS Oriya may be included.

 

-- Hariram

 

 

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Ahimanikya Satapathy <ahima...@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

I can read odia unicode in my iPhone iOS4

http://ahimanikya.blogspot.com/ -- use this blog to test in various OS

I have some problem in my MacOS and WinXP, Win7 and iPhone works great for me.

If you know how I can fix MaxOS and WinXP issues please do drop me few lines.

Thanks,
Ahi

On 01/09/10 12:47 PM, Hariram wrote:

Unicode's contribution for Internationalisation/localisations is great and countless.

 

Now a days Mobile Phones are developing as Mini Computers and hundreds of applications are bundled in them.

 

....the need of making it mandatory/necessary to include informations

about the Unicode/UTF8 compatibility

and facilities of IMEs/utilities available for languages/scripts in the

specifications of the mobile handsets

published at websites/brochures etc.....

 

...... 

Hariram

 

[Hariram]

Therefore, Standards are needed. And Govt. of India is trying. See.

http://tdil.mit.gov.in/IL_mobile.htm

 

But the standardisation should be fast, to be completed within few months, 'not in few years', because technology is developing with lightning speed.

 

And standardisation must have option of corrections, if any wrong thing found in future.

 

-- Hariram

 

 

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Mayur Dubey <mayurdu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Still the Phones of lower MRP are made with the fact in mind that users will be Indians and also those Indians who are not much efficient in English, so hindi is provided on the level of basic operation, these basic operation includes Phonebook management and messaging. But here the problem is in network operation level also, while transmitting text in local language from one brand mobile to another brand mobile makes text unreadable and only junk transmits, I've also observed that sometime transmitting Text in Hindi from LG mobile (GSm) to LG (CDMA) also transmits junk only .

Anyways, Our concern is not much on using hindi in operating mobile but to have proper hindi rendering in internet browsing through mobile. Symbian based Nokia mobile have facility to install additional fonts, and to route between system installed fonts and new fonts through Font router applications , one of those Font router application has been tried and tested by me on multiple mobiles , N73 and Nokia3250, this application requires  Signing for individual IMEIs

some related information can be found on
http://www.imserba.com/forum/showthread.php?t=99767&page=2
http://imserba.com/forum/showthread.php?t=104351

I think these companies will do the needful only if market make them realize the need of hindi mobiling, and people stop buying the mobiles which do not support hindi.

Regards,

Mayur