[General] encoding gestion in PEtAlS

[mathias.beldame]

The character encoding management in PEtALS works now as the following:
   - incoming messages are translated to UTF-8 when they arrive in the bus, independently their original format.
   - outgoing messages are always encoded in UTF-8 because of the preceding translation.
   - only the attachments keep their original encoding.

This policy could be improved, in order to allow users to specify some encoding policy such as:
   - specify an output encoding for a specific SU.
   - specify the output message encoding is the same as the incoming message encoding.
   - any other interesting policy...

We can imagine that these policies are implemented in the components (by detecting the encoding of the encoding messages, registering it in meta-data, and interpreting it at the output of the bus), or are implemented in the kernel or the cdk.

Has anybody an idea on the question?

PS: Some work has been done on the file transfer component to implement it at the component level, but not committed...




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