- From: Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:54:47 -0700 (PDT)
- To: ned.freed@mrochek.com
- Cc: simon.tardell@smarttrust.com, ietf-charsets@iana.org
See: ftp://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ETSI/GSM0338.TXT for the best sense that we (myself, Kent Karlsson, and Markus Kuhn) were able to make of trying to map this to Unicode. GSM 0338 is a very funny animal that departs significantly from the way JTC1/SC2 builds character sets. It overloads characters by glyph shape, uses NULL, and has an escape mechanism, using ESCAPE in a way noncompatible with ISO 2022, to create a double-byte escape encoding for extra characters. It doesn't seem advisable to me to suggest that it would be appropriate for MIME text encoding. --Ken
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