Hello Jens On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:00:21 +0100 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? If you're referring to long lines, then some RFC allows 1000-character lines. I know it's not considered netiquette, but I hate the mess/wasted space I get when viewing emails with a client not set to *exactly* 80 chars per line, or single-word lines after quoting. But I don't want to start a flame war here ;) > 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. 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! I do find them ugly, too, but they don't make the text much more difficult to comprehend and they let me write shorter messages. > 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 ... http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Illume_keyboard#List_of_layouts - have you seen these? > > > > > > > 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! I never said these were 8-bit characters. Try sending the sentence below with SHR Messages (I know, it's difficult). It really does happen. It reminded me of a case with Samsubg a while back. Their phones contained software that miscounted national characters, what made the characters eat up ~100 remaining chars at once. People widely considered Samsung phones broken because of that. Now I realized it could have been them trying to keep messages unmodified and send them in UCS-2. > > > > 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 ... > > Jens What you propose would be welcome when it comes to input. That's something completely different than working around flaws(?) in SMS design, though. Cheers, rhn _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
