On Tuesday 29 July 2003 15:59, Andreas Fink wrote:
> On Dienstag, Juli 29, 2003, at 02:31  Uhr, Stamatopoulos Panagiotis
>
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Andreas,
> >
> > There are only 10 (capital) letters for the greek language that do not
> > match
> > the english one. All other letters are the same as english. These 10, I
> > think are all included in the ISO8859-1. The problem is how kannel can
> > recognize these 10 letters. For example "ΠPAΣΙΝΟ" is a greek word.
> > What I
> > get in kannel is "?PA?INO" and of course I can not use this word as a
> > keyword to set up a service. What do you think about this ?
>
> The problem is that those characters are not present in the standard
> GSM character set..

this is not true, greek chars are defined in the default GSM charset.
and we can handle these only if kannel's internal charset is unicode.
so user can define e.g. in smsbox that he/she await LATIN-7 as output and 
smsbox must convert it. good example is the netiko's gateway ;)

> So Kannel has no way of mapping them. Unless someone shows us what a
> GSM phone supporting Greek is really sending, we can not figure out how
> to fix this. Its not documented in the GSM standards anywhere. Thats
> the real problem behind it.
>
>
>
> Andreas Fink
> Global Networks Switzerland AG
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Tel: +41-61-6666333  Fax: +41-61-6666334   Mobile: +41-79-2457333
> Global Networks, Inc. Clarastrasse 3, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
> Web: http://www.global-networks.ch/      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------

-- 
Best regards / Mit besten Grüßen aus Düsseldorf

Dipl.-Ing.
Alexander Malysh
___________________________________________

Centrium GmbH
Vogelsanger Weg 80
40470 Düsseldorf

Fon: +49 (0211) 74 84 51 80
Fax: +49 (0211) 277 49 109

email: a.malysh at centrium.de
web: www.centrium.de
msn: olek2002 at hotmail.com
icq: 98063111
___________________________________________

Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html


Reply via email to