[Asterisk-Dev] IAX spec: Text formats and character sets

[Steve Underwood]

Michael Giagnocavo wrote:

>>>Sure, and I think that's agreed to be UTF-8 since that'll allow ASCII-only
>>>clients to work o.k. in sending Asterisk data. Now people have been
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>>>about actually getting things implemented inside Asterisk.
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>>Agreed? By who? A few hours ago people were still posting stuff about 
>>ISO8859-1 being in current use. :-\
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>Yea, I guess agreed on UTF-8 was too strong a phrase. People have said
>ISO8859-1 is still in use by certain systems. I don't think anyone is
>arguing that IAX shouldn't use Unicode. 
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>I'm guessing that the main issue would be to use UTF-8 or UCS-2. It really
>depends how much text is going to be non-ASCII. If you think that Asian
>language users will be big consumers of IAX, then UTF-8 would be more of a
>burden (processing as well as size). 
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UCS-2 is totally brain dead. That is a non-starter. UCS-4 is too bulky. 
Only UTF-8 makes any sense, and its ASCII compatible. Using UTF-8 is a 
no-brainer.

Regards,
Steve