RE: [RFI] octstr_recode

that doesn't solve the problem of using unicode : if that is the case,
and you want to use non ISO-8859-1 keywords, then the config file has to
be written using UTF-16, which is very ASCII unfriendly (possible will
break configuration parsing in Kannel).

--
Oded Arbel
m-Wise Inc.
[email protected]

"...Linux, .... that could probably be ported to solar-powered
calculators..."
	-- from PC Week NOS benchmark.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruno David Rodrigues [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:27 PM
> To: Oded Arbel; Kannel-devel (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [RFI] octstr_recode
> 
> 
> with mo-record = true, kannel will TRY to convert to iso-8859-1 only.
> 
> If mo-record is false or kannel can't convert UCS2 to 
> iso-8859-1 (because
> of a unknown char), kannel will behave just like before: text 
> will have the
> ucs2 string, coding (%c) will have 3 and charset (%C) will 
> have UTF16-BE.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Oded Arbel" <[email protected]>
> To: "Bruno David Rodrigues" <[email protected]>; "Kannel-devel
> (E-mail)" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 3:03 PM
> Subject: RE: [RFI] octstr_recode
> 
> 
> Sorry - I didn't understand : with which setting it will 
> recode UCS2 to
> utf-8 , with mo-record set to true or to false ?
> 
> --
> Oded Arbel
> m-Wise Inc.
> [email protected]
> 
> When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your 
> forecast by
> asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't
> know the answer either.
> -- Edgar R. Fiedler
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruno David Rodrigues [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 4:42 PM
> > To: Kannel-devel (E-mail)
> > Subject: Re: [RFI] octstr_recode
> >
> >
> > Ok. Before we think about real unicode, as we usually inject
> > iso-8859-1 when
> > we are sending a message, if (and only if) you set 
> mo-recode = true in
> > smsbox
> > group, smsbox will try to recode the ucs2 to iso-8859-1 when
> > it receive a
> > message.
> >
> > As usually, if you don't want it, just don't set mo-recode
> > and everything
> > will
> > be just like before.
> >
> > The patch was commited to cvs yesterday...
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Oded Arbel" <[email protected]>
> > To: "Andreas Fink" <[email protected]>
> > Cc: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 9:40 AM
> > Subject: RE: [RFI] octstr_recode
> >
> >
> > > >>  Well what I'm trying to say is that Kannel should
> > support Unicode
> > > >receiving but
> > > >>  keyword matching in smsbox against unicode is quite a headake.
> > > >
> > > >  not so - just convert it to utf-8 and strstr() it.
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes but how do you type a keyword in utf-8 in the config 
> file if the
> > > config file is plain ascii?
> >
> > Just type it using an utf-8 aware editor.
> >
> > > the target is to match non ascii
> > > keywords. If the keyword would be ASCII then we woulndt have any
> > > Unicode.
> >
> > of course you would - you forget that the ASCII chars in 
> ISO-8859 and
> > single-byte chars in UTF-8 are bitwise identical. if you
> > write a keyword
> > using "low ISO-8859-1" (characters where only 7 bits are in
> > use) and try
> > to match it to the same word written in UTF-8, you'll have a
> > match. OTOH
> > - if you wrote the keyword in mutli-byte UTF-8, one would
> > expect that to
> > match this keyword one would have to send a SM in unicode.
> > note: ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is
> > defined as 7 bit and often used as 8bit by adding a 0 bit 
> at the front
> > of each char.
> >
> > i.e. - as long as you use on the "low" range (0-127) characters of
> > ISO-8859-1 in the config file, it doesn't matter if its ASCII
> > or UTF-8.
> > it only matter if you attempt to use weirder stuff (not 
> sure where in
> > ISO-8859-8 are the accented chracters, but I guess that some
> > of these do
> > fall in the "high" range). when that is the case- we should pick a
> > coding and stick to it : I'd suggest to go with UTF-8, otherwise we
> > either don't have unicode support, or we have a headache ;-)
> >
> > --
> > Oded Arbel
> > m-Wise Inc.
> > [email protected]
> >
> > "A Meltdown? One of those annoying buzzwords. We prefer to 
> think of it
> > as an
> > unrequested fission surplus!"
> > -- Montegue Burns, (The Simpsons)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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