Re: charset question (Greek)

Because SMS with unicode contains only 70 characters. (That is why I
do not like Unicode, at least.) Andreas, is coding of greek chars with
GSM default alphabet standardised any way ? 

aarno

Oded Arbel wrote:
> 
> Haven't got a good answer, but another question :
> why don't you want to use unicode ?
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andreas Fink [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 5:55 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: charset question (Greek)
> >
> >
> > I got a simple question for once.
> >
> > We got coding = iso-8859-1, UTF16BE supported.
> >
> > What I need to specify is the GSM Default alphabeth. Or in other
> > words I want to tell Kannel that my input is already correctly
> > encoded. What do I need to do for that? I need this for supporting
> > greek characters but without using unicode. This seems to be done on
> > some phones by using additional characters out of the GSM default
> > alphabeth but they are not part of ISO-8859-1 but of ISO-8859-5. So
> > using iso8859-1 is not a good choice for inputting those characters.
> > GSM Default Alphabeth would be.
> >
> > Anyone?
> >
> >
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