id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
923	Unicode letters in SMS	rhn	mrmoku	"Situation:
Some languages use alphabets based on Latin with additional characters not included in the 7-bit SMS encoding, but included in UCS-2. Most of these characters can be converted to their Latin equivalents without a big loss in readability.

Problem:
UCS-2 SMS can contain up to 70 characters, 7-bit ones can contain up to 160 chars. The user has to choose between paying twice for messages or keeping a separate dictionary with ""Latinized"" words only for use with SMS (often impossible, usually impractical).

Solution:
Define a ""Latinizing"" mapping from Unicode to 7-bit characters and allow the user to choose it to be applied for his/her messages, which can later be sent in 7-bit encoding.

Attachment:
It's divided into parts: what I found in Illume keyboard source (only mapped to lowercase), the Polish conversions I use daily and some guesses.
It probably contains a fair number of characters that will never be used."	enhancement	new	minor	wishlist	shr-messages	all