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Original Post: UTF-8 Support on Siemens Devices
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The analysts allready said it, the world is saved by the invention of webservices. Gosh, this is cool. Two years later, i tried my first webservices projects, but i have a J2ME/MIDP client, not a full featured web app or something.
Because i love Siemens mobile phones and own one too, i started my complete development with the S55 Emulator. And the nightmare began:
- no UTF-8 support.
The engineers at Siemens seems to have problems understanding the value of a java enabled device. Of course people will start developing applications and of course some weird ones will also start using webserives. When using SOAP, UTF-8 is a very common encoding and all Webservice toolkits will crank out this encoding per default. Now arrived at my phone, and being in the position to be non-american, i got only trashed german umlaute. (Heaven is living in an us ascii world these days)
So i had to write my own UTF-8 decoder, which wasnt too hard with the help of DataStreams in Java, but the research before costed me days.
Another crazy issue (only and really only happened with my S55 Emulator) is IOExceptions when accessing webservices in a loop on my local tomcat. Debugging was quite impossible because it was non-determinant.
After all, i begin to hate this emulator and siemens at all, but i cant yell out too loud, because i dont know if other vendors have the same problems. But at the end, it cant be too hard to provide a UTF-8 encoding in the device.
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