Yui Kee's alert service is under continual review to make it more useful and flexible. The latest improvement that is visible to end-users is the addition of the capability of sending Chinese alerts to mobile phones by SMS.
Allan Dyer, Chief Consultant of Yui Kee Computing, explained, "We previously had difficulty in the conversion of the character encoding as the data was transferred between applications. Although the operating system, programming language and SMS interface were all supposed to handle Unicode data, they did not interact as expected. Upgrading everything to the most recent versions improved the Unicode support and a few minor program changes fixed the problems."
The shots of the mobile screen and the corresponding alert in an email also illustrate YKAlert's ability to convert between GB2312 and Big5 encoding, as required.
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