Re: [PATCH] support GSM 03.38 encoding byte stream via smsbox's sendsms

Hi,

I see no need to pass GSM03.38 directly to smsbox. Supported charset should
be UTF-8 only and then it's up to SMSC module to convert to anything else.
We have now too much confusion with charset etc. IMHO all this charset crap
should be removed and only UTF-8 should be supported.

Please, please no hacks anymore. Let us cleanup/simplify things instead to
confuse users even more.

Stipe Tolj wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I'm trying to catch with lots of issues ;)
> 
> Please find attached a simple patch that is a "RFC" version to allows
> direct passing of GSM 03.38 encoded byte streams via smsbox to Kannel.
> 
> Why? Now, smsbox still assumes WINDOWS-1252 encoding for 7bit indicated
> text payloads. This means ie. various greek characters are not supported.
> If a user want's to send via SMPP (data_coding == 0, hence GSM default
> alphabet), then we'd like to provide a way to inject the byte stream
> directly. It will still get transcoded to our internal represenative
> encoding (UTF-8), but makes the "thing" easiert for the user side.
> 
> Comments please.
> 
> Stipe
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Thanks,
Alex