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> From: Harrie Hazewinkel [mailto:harrie@;mod-snmp.com]
> Just from an architectural point of view would it indeed not be
> better to have no character encoding in the SMPP portion except
> for configure/compile time/configuration options to select the
> character encoding??
>
> Just wondering why the SMPP part needs to have a specific
> charcter encoding.
because specific drivers (not providers) may have specific character codings. you
can't assume that any communication protocol will always by default speak GSM 03.38 or
UCS-2BE. that's why the driver has to make sure that the bearerbox recevies a message
which is already coded according to basic expectations (Latin1 in case of non-unicode
messages).
We can always do something like this : change the architecture of kannel so that
driver will not decode the message content, but simply set the message field 'charset'
to the charset they expect the message to be in, and let the bearerbox do all the
encoding conversion.
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Oded Arbel
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