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#4 Post entries using UTF-8 charset

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2006-01-15
2006-01-15
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LiveJournal expects the text of posted entries to be in
UTF-8 Unicode encoding, which allows for representation
of any characters from any alphabet of the world.

PPCDJ currently posts entries using the platform's
character set, which only works for plain US ASCII
(ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, or to put it another way,
UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII...).

For other character sets (e.g. russian cyryllic, german
umlauts, polish diacritical etc...) the text should be
converted to UTF-8 before sending to the LiveJournal
server.

Unfortunately I'm not an expert in PocketPC programming.

But doesn't PocketPC API contain a function which
automatically converts text encoded in the current
platform encoding to UTF-8?
This would make fixing this problem a really easy task,
for all languages...

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