On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Jens Seidel <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi rhn (???) and others,
>
> I really wonder how many people are even unable to write proper mails.
> Short: Read http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php and similar
> netiquettes and follow them! It cannot be so difficult, right?
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 08:05:47PM +0100, rhn wrote:
> > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:01:47 +0200 Tom Hacohen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:07 PM, rhn <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:33:22 +0200 Tom Hacohen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:40 PM, rhn <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > > On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:22:36 +0200 Tom Hacohen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 3:26 PM, rhn <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > > > > One more thing is Unicode support in SMS. I daresay it's
> actually unwelcome
> > > > > > > > in many cases. Most mobile phones and SMS sending services
> convert Unicode
> > > > > > > > to plain ASCII, because UCS-2 encoded messages are heavy and
> costly.
> > > > > > > > Someone will say: "don't use Unicode signs". Well, that would
> be fine if
> > > > > > > > the only input was a dumb keyboard, but our keyboards support
> dictionaries
> > > > > > > > that do contain Unicode letters.
> > > > > > > > My proposition is to mgive users choice to convert Unicode
> letters to their
> > > > > > > > ASCII approximations. I would have done that myself, but I
> couldn't find my
> > > > > > > > way through the C code responsible for that. I would happily
> extend the
> > > > > > > > settings app though.
>
> I find using 7 bit replacements very very ugly and try to avoid it even if
> typing 8 bit charcters needs twice or even more time.

We use either 7bit-gsm or ucs-2, I don't think the 8bit alphabet is widely
used (I've never seen a message like this), and we don't support it atm.

> It is really hard,
> using the German illume Keyboard is isn't even possible to insert "ß". To
> enter umlauts (öäü) you have to enter them as words and need to delete the
> inserted space after it, what a mess!

Indeed.

>
> I once adapted the terminal layout to properly match a German keyboard but
> did so in the filesystem and the next upgrade to illume made my changes
> vanish :-(( I have to do it again and send it upstream I know ...
>
You should.

>
> > > > > > > The remaining characters counter shows ~70 when it's a unicode
> message and
> > > > > > > ~160 when it's 7bit gsm.
>
> Heh, you mean once I enter ASCII text followed by a single 8 bit character
> the number of usable characters reduces immediately by 90? Never have seen
> this!
>
Please give an example (in a bug report) I have never encountered this
behavior.

>
> > > > An example sentence:
> > > > "Wstałem z łóżka" -> "Wstalem z lozka"
> > > > The algorithm I propose is replacing the Latin-Supplement-1 and
> > > > Latin-Extended-A letters with the base ones.
>
> The opposite "Wstalem z lozka" -> "Wstałem z łóżka" would be more welcome
> but is of course not unique/wanted in all cases ...
>
I agree, we shouldn't mangle with people's texts.

>
> Jens
> _______________________________________________
>

-- 
Tom.
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