RE: charset question (Greek)

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Andreas Fink
 > To: Richard Braakman
 > Cc: [email protected]
 > Sent: 3/13/02 12:51 PM
 > Subject: Re: charset question (Greek)
 > 
 > 
 > Another way would be to carry the SMS always in binary format around. 
 > This means the format actually used on the over the air. This is more 
 > or less the binary version of the PDU format of the AT interface. In 
 > this case, the SMSC driver would simply do things like encoding the 
 > data in hex or so. For EMI it woudl split off the UDH, for AT it 
 > would work "as is" and for SMPP its pretty similar.  this would also 
 > work for HTTP interface for kannel-kannel (providing coding / charset 
 > are set correctly). Any SMSC types however who dont take binary 
 > format as input would be a problem then (some content gateway 
 > recently added could be a problem). If we cant code something in GSM 
 > binary format, we cant send it to a phone so its THE common format. 
 > However the question is also what happens to non GSM networks in this 
 > case. Are there any issues there maybe?

I know of a SMS reseller in Taiwan where they use a proprietary gateway
to connect to the SMSC of the network operator. This gateway wants the
SMS text to be in BIG5 encoding. Your proposal would make support for
such a setup very hard.

Regards
  Jörg