RE: charset question (Greek)

>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.


I agree with you in the sense that current recoding is messy.
I would suggest that recoding doesnt occur at all unless its necessary.
This means that every SMSC driver would need to be aware of all 
coding types and recode once from source to target if needed.

Thins like UTF16->iso->gsm should not occur as it is not "lossless".


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