quantass
January 18th, 2004, 11:54 PM
Hi there,
I realize there are numerous cell phone, pdas, etc out there and they each have unique features. I am writing a ASP.NET mobile app and i sending back a page that has text on it back to the mobile device (i am using mobile toolkit btw). My question, what text characters are visible on ALL mobile devices? Can i safely assume that the entire ASCII table from 0-255 (see http://www.rpi.edu/~kirkd/ascii/) are acceptable characters that i can send back to a mobile device and be assured that the device will do whatever it has to do to display that character? Or is there a possiblity that one of these characters could mess up the device and halt even showing my return http page entirely? I need to know because i am in a situation where some text may return to the device that may look like gibberish (it was possibly written in a non-english char language) but i want the device either to display that character or at least attempt to show something...the worse thing is if the device just aborts displaying ANYTHING....
Should i scan my text before sending it back to the device and only pass the standard "a-z", "A-Z", "0-9","({})-+=_`~,.<>/?;:'\|!@#$%^&*"? But what would happen on a person's mobile device that isnt english based -- will my text still show up in ASCII?
Thanks
I realize there are numerous cell phone, pdas, etc out there and they each have unique features. I am writing a ASP.NET mobile app and i sending back a page that has text on it back to the mobile device (i am using mobile toolkit btw). My question, what text characters are visible on ALL mobile devices? Can i safely assume that the entire ASCII table from 0-255 (see http://www.rpi.edu/~kirkd/ascii/) are acceptable characters that i can send back to a mobile device and be assured that the device will do whatever it has to do to display that character? Or is there a possiblity that one of these characters could mess up the device and halt even showing my return http page entirely? I need to know because i am in a situation where some text may return to the device that may look like gibberish (it was possibly written in a non-english char language) but i want the device either to display that character or at least attempt to show something...the worse thing is if the device just aborts displaying ANYTHING....
Should i scan my text before sending it back to the device and only pass the standard "a-z", "A-Z", "0-9","({})-+=_`~,.<>/?;:'\|!@#$%^&*"? But what would happen on a person's mobile device that isnt english based -- will my text still show up in ASCII?
Thanks