RE: charset question (Greek)

Andreas Fink <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.kannel.devel
Message-ID <p05101426b8b50201f558@[10.0.0.2]>
>  > The advantage of this solution is that there is much less processing
>>  power needed in bearerbox and the cpu intensive tasks would be done
>>  in SMSBox which can be load shared easily. Also routing can work more
>>  efficiently as you would never have to think about recoding. The
>>  binary format is as close to GSM as it can be so every SMS protocol
>>  should be supportable.
>>
>>  Comments?
>
>That would be bad - I'm currently working with two (different) SMSC
>protocols that both use some sort of text for transfer : weirdly encoded
>ASCII or utf-8. if you lug the messages around in binary, whenever a
>non-standard SMSC protocol comes along you'll have to do lotsa recoding
>in the module itself.


A library function would be sufficient to handle this. So its not 
lots of recoding. We do lots of recoding already in kannel for no 
reason. And it makes current kannel non transparent which I consider 
pretty bad way to go.

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