[gnome-bluetooth] [phone-manager] sending sms with special letters in it + feature request

Henrik Persson nix at syndicalist.net
Wed Jun 23 11:07:15 BST 2004


On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 11:47, Edd Dumbill wrote:
> > An alternative could be to have a few radioboxes with different
> > charsets? Or at least ISO-8859-1{5,} and UTF-8. That way we could always
> > choose. :)
> 
> The situation's a bit deeper than this.  gsmlib is set up to interpret
> the standard GSM 7 bit encoding from GSM 03.38 (see
> http://www.dreamfabric.com/sms/default_alphabet.html).
> 
> It has tables to convert to Latin 1.  However, these tables are a little
> incomplete.  I will report this as a bug to gsmlib, but for now there's
> nothing I can really do about this.  It doesn't appear to me that gsmlib
> yet supports the UCS-16 encoding, so our non-Western friends are a bit
> stuck for now :-(

:(

> I've just checked code into CVS to do the utf-8/latin-1 conversion, but
> there are a few bugs with characters 16 through 27 in GSM 03.38.  Most
> materially at the moment, this appears to mean lower case c with cedilla
> doesn't get through.

Hm. I read the link you posted above and euro-sign is included.. Maybe
ISO-8859-15 should be an alternative, too? Alot of europeans might want
to use it. ;)

And oh, 16-27 are greek letters and they are not in iso-8859-1, iirc. :)

> I'll be making a new release with this improvement in soon.

Great. Thanks. :)

-- 
Henrik Persson <nix at syndicalist.net>




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