Re: Coding autodetection

Hi Enver,

Enver ALTIN wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:32 +0300, Roman wrote:
> 
>>I have kannel 1.4.0 and some scripts, which used in exec
>>statement in kannel.conf service section. These scripts can return
>>result in UCS2 or GSM coding(english or another language).
>>Is there way in kannel(without patching it) to autodetect coding and
>>set it in PDU. Or may be there are some params to set coding type for exec
>>results?
> 
> 
> I have implemented this on my application like this:
> 
>       * I try to convert (always UTF-8) input text to US-ASCII coding,
>         if it succeeds, it's at most 8bit.
>               * A loop checks every byte in converted text to be in
>                 32..127 range. If every byte is in this range, message
>                 is safe to send in 7bit coding.
>       * If US-ASCII conversion fails, I convert the message to UCS2 and
>         send it with 16bit coding.
> 
> This worked fairly well for me. I think we can implement coding
> autodetection in Kannel this way. The problem is, client needs to know
> how many messages did the content get split into, when concatenation is
> enabled for sendsms-user :)

sounds reasonable. Patches in 'diff -u' format are welcome ;)

Stipe

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