this might be true but I dont think phones have implemented this as
its not part of the GSM standard.
In other words, even if one OPERATOR has it implemented and one
PHONE, its no good as there are always phones on the market whcih
wouldnt support it. Unicode is the way to go here.
On 25.09.2006, at 11:25, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
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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