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Some years ago I had to work with text encoded with 3GPP TS 23.038 [1], which is a 7bit packed encoding with a few quirks. It wasn't particularly fun. [1] http
by dkersten 11y ago
Some years ago I had to work with text encoded with 3GPP TS 23.038 [1], which is a 7bit packed encoding with a few quirks. It wasn't particularly fun.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_03.38 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_03.38
- jfim 11y agoThe telephony standards are all kinds of bizarre. It's a testament as to how well the specs are written that it actually works.
- dkersten 11y agoThe specs are incredibly dense and hard to read, but they are quite detailed. I found many of the protocols to be both incredibly clever and incredibly annoying at the same time.