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what are diacritics? :x
Original comment by felix.bechstein
on 27 May 2010 at 4:44
Diacritics are special characters (like accent marks), for example
ěščřžýáíéúů etc.
To remove diacritics means to convert ě->e, ú->u, ů->u, etc.
Normal SMS length is 160 chars. If you use a single char with diacritical mark
in
SMS, then the length of the SMS is limited just to 70 chars (the code table
with
special chars is bigger so it needs more bits to define a character).
So you can save much more space by removing diacritics than trimming spaces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritics - I am talking just about latin
alphabet ;-)
Original comment by tomas.j...@gmail.com
on 27 May 2010 at 7:34
thx for information
Original comment by felix.bechstein
on 27 May 2010 at 6:06
i decided to decline this request,
feel free to do it your self.
I'll be happy to merge a patch.
Original comment by f...@ub0r.de
on 17 Jun 2012 at 2:58
Hi Felix,
Pleeeeaseeee, could you perhaps reconsider? I would be happy to make a donation
of €10 based on this. I am pretty sure there would be significant interest in
my home country (poland), just recently came across the thread about this which
was 150 pages long. I would be happy to actually advertise your app on all
android forums in poland, too and especially on all threads where i see this
issue. I know probably doesn't start to cover the effort, but still hope it
shows that this is needed. the problem here is not only what tomas described
above, but mainly the fact the message arriving to old-style phone is
unreadable full of &^*&^"£%$ letters etc. many of us have a need to text older
family members who are not necessarily as quick with technology as we are,
their phone standard is say "nokia 3210", so texting them is likely to come
like this if modern phone is used and sms is composed using any of
builtin/swype/swiftkey keyboards etc. keyboard makers don't want to solve this
as they consider it to be smsapp improvement...
there are actually a few sms apps that do this already:
- samsung messaging app has a function called input->GSM alphabet which
converts diacritics entered in sms before sending, ie. message is seen as
containing diacritics but they get replaced before sending to destination
- go sms pro has a similar function, works same as in samsung app.
why don't i want to use the other apps? well they don't have plugins support
that your app has, i would specifically like to take advantage of web sms
gateways which the other apps don't support.
any help i can give, let me know. unfortunately i can't code it myself...
Rgds,
Bogdan
Original comment by lipski.b...@gmail.com
on 21 Aug 2013 at 8:14
btw. sorry if misread the enh request, just read it again. I hope the OP meant
for websms to handle diacritics in the way samsung/gosmspro do, if it was sth
else, I would be happy to open it as new enh. Rgds,B.
Original comment by lipski.b...@gmail.com
on 21 Aug 2013 at 8:17
ok, i found a simple solution for android 2.3+
please verify
Original comment by f...@ub0r.de
on 23 Aug 2013 at 3:50
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Original comment by f...@ub0r.de
on 16 Oct 2013 at 5:46
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
tomas.j...@gmail.com
on 26 May 2010 at 10:55