On Wednesday 05 August 2009, Vickram Crishna wrote: > inline below: > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:05 PM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 August 2009, jtd wrote: > > > On Wednesday 05 August 2009, Pranesh Prakash wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 20:02, jtd<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Only an idiot will commit a folly of proposing and approving > > > > > multiple standards when there exists an opportunity of avoiding it. > > > > > > > > That assumes that there are costs involved in multiple standards, > > > > which is what I'm seeking to question (not necessarily to refute). > > > > Replying to myself: > > Replying to community: > > Replacing a human with a computer as the decision maker on a multiple > > standard > > platform gives you > > M$ office2007 > > Google translate > > Do you mean Google transliterations?
http://www.google.co.in/language_tools?hl=en > I don't even know what this has to do with > standards, really. The lack of a universal grammar standard results in really funny translations on google. Thus what essentially should be a simple parsing of words from a lookup table after some rules application, is in reality not so. Compare this with C to assembly conversion. > > But since the subject has been raised, does anyone on this list know what > the equivalent for Unicode is, in the mobile space? ISO/IEC 10646 or UCS2. > As I understand it, in > the GSM standard, the coding for text is hardwired to ASCII, GSM 03.38 http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/archive/23_series/23.038/ > so if one > wants to communicate in any non-Roman script, then only MMS or other > datacomm dependent media will work. Is this correct? And what is the status > in CDMA? No. The handset has to support UTF16. Afaik the network is encoding agnostic. So on my A780 i can change from utf7 to automatic and receive Chinese. > > The reason I ask is, I suggested on another list that the government amend > telco licensing to 'force' ('persuade') equipment and service providers to > support and encourage the use of multilingual messaging, which is the > bugbear of systems designed to provide ready information inexpensively in > several sectors, such as agriculture and healthcare, using readymade > infrastructure (disclaimer: I personally happen to think it is one of the > most humongously expensive - in total cost - solutions, but the reality is > someone else has already spent that money). -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
