RE: Encoding in Kannel (was: charset question (Greek))

How do the application tell Kannel which encoding the MT is in ? it uses
a query string parameter to send the encoding, right ? well - just add
another encoding "binary" (if it's not already there), which would cause
recoding not to occur.
Doing anything text-oriented in unicode would allow us much greater
freedom in anything text related : for example - keyword matching.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Fink [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 12:41 PM
> To: Oded Arbel
> Subject: Re: Encoding in Kannel (was: charset question (Greek))
> 
> 
> >
> >I'd like to opt for recoding to some unicode format, as early as
> >possible, do everything internally with unicode, and let the modules
> >recode to what ever they thing is most efficient. we should 
> supply some
> >functions and/or hints in the msg structure to help modules determine
> >which encoding would cause the least amount of data loss.
> >UTF-16 or UCS2 are good for that, also UTF-8. note that 
> UTF-16 != UCS2
> >(!!)
> >
> 
> I would definitively vote against this. Unicode is built for text. 
> Lots of people using kannel use it for binary content like pictures 
> or ringtones. There's no coding for binary in Unicode and frankly it 
> doesnt make sense. My view would be to leave the coding in what it 
> was on input and recode it only on request. This means Kannel will 
> transport the data along as far as possible in the original coding.
> 
> 
> This will make one more thing obvious, we need to split SMS in 
> bearerbox, not SMSBox.
> 
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