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

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
Fri Apr 29 22:16:42 MST 2005


On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:00:10PM -0500, Tilghman Lesher wrote:

> Since it's obvious that this is an unresolved issue, we should
> avoid the issue at this juncture in the IAX2 spec and simply specify
> that ASCII is the character format.  If at some point in the future
> these arguments are resolved, then at that time a revision may be made
> to the IAX2 specification allowing UTF-8 or another character set.

Which would allow some to take the "easy" path of ISO-8859-1, whereas
others will assume that this text is ISO-8859-5, or whatever. If
non-ascii chars are used they MUST be UTF-8.

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