Re: send Arabic sms

Andreas Fink <andreas 'at' fink.org> writes:

> Comparing to other languages, it doesn't make real sense to use
> some 8bit encoding (like UTF8) for Arabic.

I respectfully disagree. Arabic is alphabet-based, so 8bit is
more than enough, thus much more efficient. As an example, Arabic
Linux distros have long used ISO-8859-6 as system charset;
actually, unicode is better suited now, as ISO-8859-6 seems to be
a bit broken (I suspect the reason being that computing was
mostly designed/standardized by western entities) but
theoretically, using 2 bytes per character for an alphabet-based
language is wasteful.

However, we're going farther and farther from the kannel topic
there :)

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