[PATCH 1/3] stkutil: display text attributes as html

[Denis Kenzior]

Hi Andrew,

>>> It would have a different signature because as far as I understand a
>>> separate array of attributes is sent in each segment (the start/len
>>> fields can't address more than 256 characters anyway).  So that
>>> function can be a wrapper around this function.
>>>
>>
>> It depends actually.  I'd like to avoid writing a separate EMS
>> concatenator, and re-use sms_decode_text.  This means that if possible,
>> I'd like this function to work on arbitrary length strings.  The text
>> attributes can be massaged pretty easily without knowing what's inside
>> the SMS message.
> 
> My point is that it won't work on a message longer than 256 bytes
> anyway, because you would need to either change how the attribute
> start byte is coded, or supplement each attribute with information
> about which segment it relates to.

I know, see my comment above about 'text attributes can be massaged..'

My thinking is that doing it inside this function is faster / easier in
the common case than writing a custom EMS message decoder.

Regards,
-Denis