Language and character set support

The tables below detail the languages and character sets that M-Business Client version 6.2 and later support.

Note

This section details the languages and character sets that M-Business Client supports. To display HTML pages correctly, it is also necessary for the fonts required by supported languages and character sets to be present on the device where M-Business Client is installed.

Localized versions of M-Business Client

Platform

English

French

Italian

German

Spanish

Japanese

Traditional Chinese

Simplified Chinese

Palm OS

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

Windows Mobile family*

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Win32

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Microsoft Smartphone

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

Symbian OS

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

* Windows Mobile Pocket PC 2003, Windows Mobile 5, and Windows Mobile 6.

Character sets for HTML rendering

Platform

Windows-1252

ISO- 8859-1

ISO-8859-2

ISO-8859-3

ISO-8859-4

ISO-8859-5

UTF-8

EUC-JP

Shift-JIS

Palm OS

No

Yes

No

No

No

No

Yes

No

No

Windows Mobile family*

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Win32

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Microsoft Smartphone

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

No

No

No

Symbian OS

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

No

No

No

* Windows Mobile Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 5, and Windows Mobile 6.

In addition to character sets in the table above, on Microsoft OS platforms only:

  • Greek is now supported, using either ISO-8895-7 or Windows-1253.

  • Cyrillic is now supported, using Windows 1251.

Character sets for M-Business XML conduit

Platform

Windows-1252

ISO-8859-1

ISO-8859-2

ISO-8859-3

ISO-8859-4

ISO-8859-5

UTF-8

EUC-JP

Shift-JIS

Palm OS

No

Yes

No

No

No

No

Yes

No

No

Windows Mobile family*

No

Yes

No

No

No

No

Yes

No

No

Win32

No

Yes

No

No

No

No

Yes

No

No

Microsoft Smartphone

No

Yes

No

No

No

No

Yes

No

No

Symbian OS

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

* Windows Mobile Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 5, and Windows Mobile 6.

Note

M-Business XML conduit is not supported on Symbian OS.

Languages supported by character sets

The languages supported by the different character sets in the tables above are listed below. For additional information on Asian languages, see Working with double-byte character sets (DBCS).

  • EUC-JP   Covers Japanese.

  • ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1)   Covers most western European languages: Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish, Spanish, Swedish. Also covers Afrikaans and Swahili.

  • ISO-8859-2 (Latin 2)   Covers most central and eastern European languages: Czech, Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian.

  • ISO-8859-3 (Latin 3)   Covers Esperanto, Maltese, and Turkish.

  • ISO-8859-4 (Latin 4)   Covers Estonian, Greenlandic, Lappish, Latvian, Lettish, and Lithuanian.

  • ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic)   Covers Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and pre-1990 Ukrainian.

  • ISO-8859-7 (Greek)   Covers modern Greek.

  • Shift-JIS   Covers Japanese.

  • UTF-8 (Unicode)   Covers any language with Unicode support. iAnywhere recommends that you use UTF-8 if you can. For more information on the Unicode standard, see [external link] http://unicode.org/.

  • Windows-1251   Character set for languages Cyrillic, used by Microsoft operating systems.

  • Windows-1252   A superset of ISO-8859-1 that supports the same "Latin 1" languages. This character set is also known as Codepage 1252 or Windows Latin 1.

  • Windows-1253   Character set for modern Greek, used by Microsoft operating systems.

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