RE: charset question (Greek)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Fink [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:43 PM
> To: J?rg Pommnitz
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: charset question (Greek)
> 
> 
> >I aggree with you that the current code is rather messy.
> >We need just two cases: text and binary. Text should be
> >in unicode while binary messages should be left alone.
> >
> >Then the the SMSC drivers could convert text messages into
> >their local encoding, perform required splitting (with common
> >infrastructure) and send the messages.
> 
> 
> unicode and binary sounds ok to me. however it comes back to the 
> issue that we need recoding routines everywhere. Is a greek unicode 
> text now to be sent as unicode or as GSM alphabeth? 

That's the driver's place to decide - a configuration option?

> is a text 
> suitable for ISO8859-1? 

Library functions should help decide the best encoding to use

> how about characters which exist in multiple 
> unicode character tables? 

What's that ? AFAIK - each language has it's own non-duplicated space in
the unicode table.

> how to do pattern matching?

Just store whatever needs matching in unicde too.

> It aint easy, lots of things to think of.

right . ain't that fun ? :-)

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Oded Arbel
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