RE: charset question (Greek)

"Oded Arbel" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.kannel.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I don't know much about most SMSC drivers, but AT* converts to GSM 03.38
(through iso-8869-1 . this can easily be fixed).
I did notice that the way recoding is handled in Kannel (all of it -
including modules) is very confused and messy. we need to come up with a
clear design for that - answering these questions :

1. Using what character set do messages arive to smsbox/wapbox/mmsbox ? 
2. Do the boxes do recoding ?
3. Using which character set do messages get sent to the bearerbox ?
4. Does the bearebox do recoding ?
5. Using which character set do messages arrive in the modules ?
6. Should the modules do recoding (except for driver-specific issues) ?
7. How does the coding member of the Msg* structure relate to the
character set of the message ?
8. All the above questions for the MO path.
9. Which encodings do Kannel need to support internally ?
10. Using which encoding should keyword matching be done ?

I would really like to see a clear design work on that.

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

If you lost your left arm, your right arm would be left.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Fink [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:56 AM
> To: Oded Arbel
> Subject: RE: charset question (Greek)
> 
> 
> >  > -----Original Message-----
> >>  From: Andreas Fink [mailto:[email protected]]
> >>  Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:09 AM
> >>  To: Bruno David Rodrigues
> >>  Cc: [email protected]
> >>  Subject: Re: charset question (Greek)
> >>
> >>
> >>  >Can't you do a get like
> >>  >...&coding=1&text=<insert utf-8 here>&charset=utf-8
> >>  >
> >>  >kannel should convert your chars to iso-8859-1 and then to
> >>  gsm alphabet and
> >>  >send the 7bit message correctly
> >
> >If that is the case, why bother with ISO-8859-1 ? convert from utf-8
> >directly to GSM 03.38 and all your problems are solved ?
> 
> 
> The point is that the SMSC drivers currently convert either iso8859-1 
> or UTF16 and that's it.
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