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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Simple string conversion from UCS2 to ISO8859-1
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:37:40 -0800
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:53:23 +0100, pozz wrote:
>
>> Sincerely I don't know, the standard says UCS2
>
> Remembered that the specs are online
> <https://portal.3gpp.org/desktopmodules/Specifications/SpecificationDetails.aspx?specificationId=1514>.
> They don’t actually say what “data coding schemes” are allowed; the
> only mention of UCS-2 is
>
>     if <dcs> indicates that 8-bit or UCS2 data coding scheme is used,
>     or <fo> indicates that 3GPP TS 23.040 [3]
>     TP-User-Data-Header-Indication is set: ME/TA converts each 8-bit
>     octet into two IRA character long hexadecimal number (e.g. octet
>     with integer value 42 is presented to TE as two characters 2A (IRA
>     50 and 65))
>
> So it doesn’t say that UTF-16 is or isn’t allowed.

It doesn't say that EBCDIC or UTF-7 is or isn't allowed.

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