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<td class="print">0006785</td>
<td class="print">Part 01: TTCN-3 Core Language</td>
<td class="print">Clarification</td>
<td class="print">public</td>
<td class="print">20-06-2014 09:19</td>
<td class="print">06-01-2015 18:41</td>
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<td class="print">Gyorgy Rethy</td>
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<td class="print">Gyorgy Rethy</td>
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<td class="print">normal</td>
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<td class="print">minor</td>
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<td class="print">have not tried</td>
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<td class="print">closed</td>
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<td class="print">fixed</td>
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<td class="print">v4.6.1 (published 2014-06)</td>
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<td class="print">v4.7.1 (published 2015-06)</td>
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<td class="print">v4.7.1 (published 2015-06)</td>
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<td colspan="4" class="print">C.5.3, C.5.4</td>
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<td colspan="5" class="print">0006785: Change name and add description
of string_encoding parameter</td>
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<td colspan="5" class="print">In the encvalue_unichar and
decvalue_unichar predefined functions the parameter string_encoding is
specified. Its name is the same as the name of the similar parameter
used in the oct2unichar and unichar2oct predefined functions, however
its semantical behaviour is completely different. It is controlling how
to serialize the universal charstring to the bitstring sent to the
encoder and deserialize the bitstring received from the codec.<br />
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Proposed soltion:<br />
change the name of the parameter to "serialization"<br />
Add a textual description to the first paragraph specifying what the
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<td class="print">20-06-2014 09:19</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=127">Gyorgy
Rethy</a></td>
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<td class="print">20-06-2014 10:57</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=127">Gyorgy
Rethy</a></td>
<td class="print">Product Version</td>
<td class="print">=&gt; v4.6.1 (published 2014-06)</td>
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<td class="print">20-06-2014 10:57</td>
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href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=127">Gyorgy
Rethy</a></td>
<td class="print">Target Version</td>
<td class="print">=&gt; v4.7.1 (published 2015-06)</td>
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<td class="print">20-06-2014 11:40</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=508">Jacob
Wieland - Spirent</a></td>
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<td class="print">06-10-2014 12:22</td>
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Rethy</a></td>
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<td class="print">06-10-2014 16:41</td>
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Wieland - Spirent</a></td>
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<td class="print">03-11-2014 16:38</td>
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href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=127">Gyorgy
Rethy</a></td>
<td class="print">Assigned To</td>
<td class="print">=&gt; Tomas Urban</td>
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<td class="print">03-11-2014 16:38</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=127">Gyorgy
Rethy</a></td>
<td class="print">Status</td>
<td class="print">new =&gt; assigned</td>
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<td class="print">04-11-2014 13:57</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=659">Tomas
Urban</a></td>
<td class="print">Note Added: 0012399</td>
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<td class="print">04-11-2014 14:10</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=659">Tomas
Urban</a></td>
<td class="print">File Added: CR6785_v1.docx</td>
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<td class="print">04-11-2014 14:36</td>
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href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=659">Tomas
Urban</a></td>
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href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=659">Tomas
Urban</a></td>
<td class="print">Assigned To</td>
<td class="print">Tomas Urban =&gt; Gyorgy Rethy</td>
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<td class="print">04-11-2014 14:36</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=659">Tomas
Urban</a></td>
<td class="print">Status</td>
<td class="print">assigned =&gt; confirmed</td>
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<td class="print">04-11-2014 18:54</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=508">Jacob
Wieland - Spirent</a></td>
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<td class="print">04-11-2014 18:58</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=508">Jacob
Wieland - Spirent</a></td>
<td class="print">Note Edited: 0012410</td>
<td class="print">bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=12410#r95</td>
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<td class="print">05-11-2014 16:39</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=127">Gyorgy
Rethy</a></td>
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<td class="print">05-11-2014 17:11</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=127">Gyorgy
Rethy</a></td>
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<td class="print">05-11-2014 17:12</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=127">Gyorgy
Rethy</a></td>
<td class="print">Assigned To</td>
<td class="print">Gyorgy Rethy =&gt; Tomas Urban</td>
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<td class="print">05-11-2014 17:13</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=127">Gyorgy
Rethy</a></td>
<td class="print">Note Edited: 0012441</td>
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<td class="print">05-11-2014 17:14</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=127">Gyorgy
Rethy</a></td>
<td class="print">Note Edited: 0012441</td>
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<td class="print">06-11-2014 12:12</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=659">Tomas
Urban</a></td>
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<td class="print">06-11-2014 12:13</td>
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href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=659">Tomas
Urban</a></td>
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<td class="print">06-11-2014 12:13</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=659">Tomas
Urban</a></td>
<td class="print">Assigned To</td>
<td class="print">Tomas Urban =&gt; Gyorgy Rethy</td>
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<td class="print">06-11-2014 13:34</td>
<td class="print"><a
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Rethy</a></td>
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<td class="print">06-11-2014 13:35</td>
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Rethy</a></td>
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<td class="print">06-11-2014 13:36</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=127">Gyorgy
Rethy</a></td>
<td class="print">Assigned To</td>
<td class="print">Gyorgy Rethy =&gt; Tomas Urban</td>
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<td class="print">06-11-2014 14:06</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=659">Tomas
Urban</a></td>
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<td class="print">06-11-2014 14:06</td>
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href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=659">Tomas
Urban</a></td>
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<td class="print">confirmed =&gt; resolved</td>
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<td class="print">06-11-2014 14:06</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=659">Tomas
Urban</a></td>
<td class="print">Fixed in Version</td>
<td class="print">=&gt; v4.7.1 (published 2015-06)</td>
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<td class="print">06-11-2014 14:06</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=659">Tomas
Urban</a></td>
<td class="print">Resolution</td>
<td class="print">open =&gt; fixed</td>
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<td class="print">06-11-2014 14:06</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=659">Tomas
Urban</a></td>
<td class="print">Assigned To</td>
<td class="print">Tomas Urban =&gt; Gyorgy Rethy</td>
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<td class="print">06-01-2015 18:41</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=127">Gyorgy
Rethy</a></td>
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<td class="print">06-01-2015 18:41</td>
<td class="print"><a
href="http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view_user_page.php?id=127">Gyorgy
Rethy</a></td>
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<td class="print">resolved =&gt; closed</td>
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<td class="print">Can you explain the difference? I don't see one.</td>
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<td class="print">The encvalue/decvalue functions are calling the/a
(textual) codec and they return what the codec is actually returns; for
example, to a SIP encoder I can send a TTCN-3 abstract value
representing a SIP message and get the encoded SIP message, i.e. a
sequence of (abstract) unicode characters: this doesn't have any
encoding. This sequence of characters are sent by the codec to the TE as
a bitstring that the TE has to convert to abstract character data: the
string_encoding parameter defines the type of serialization the encoder
uses when creating the bitstring sent to the TE. Actually, if an
internal control mechanism would handle this at TCI, this parameter
would not be needed at all in TTCN-3 (or we could say that if the
parameter is missing, it handled at TCI automatically).<br />
<br />
The oct2unichar and unichar2oct are converting the values within the TE
(as seen by the user) and the string_encoding parameter is really
controlling how the TTCN-3 characters are encoded within the TTCN-3
octetstring value.</td>
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<td class="print">I still do not really get what you are saying at
all.<br />
<br />
How does this relate to the equivalency:<br />
<br />
encvalue_unichar(val, dec_rule) == oct2unichar(bit2oct(encvalue(val)),
dec_rule)<br />
<br />
Here, obviously, the dec_rule has the same semantics, it is used to
determine how to deserialize the bits generated by the (binary) encoder
as character data.<br />
<br />
The same is true for the decvalue_unichar function.<br />
<br />
What is a textual codec?</td>
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<td class="print"><a
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<td class="print">Jacob, you are absolutely right and the unichar
functions do work exactly as you describe. The problem is that a user
that doesn't read the specification carefuly might get an impression
that the parameter is an instruction to the codec (especially if it is a
textual codec) influencing the encoding of the value. For that reason we
want to change the name of the parameter so that it is more obvious what
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<td class="print">Proposal uploaded. Please review.</td>
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<td class="print">I think the terminus string-encoding is pretty
commonly used while I have never heard the term string serialization.
Sure, it might be confused with encoding as used otherwise in the
standard, but do we really have to invent new words because of
that?<br />
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Also, I still do not get the "semantic difference" to the same parameter
in oct2unichar and unichar2oct.<br />
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<td class="print"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization</a>
[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization"
target="_blank">^</a>]<br />
You are rigth, encoding and serialization are pritty much similar,
sometimes the same thing. Both terms are used in computing, but
serialization is not used in networking terminology. This term is
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<td class="print">My understanding of the semantical difference
is:<br />
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In oct2unichar and unichar2oct the string_encoding parameter is directly
influencing the return value of these functions, I think their semantics
is clear.<br />
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Now, if looking at decvalue_unichar. Let encoded_value be a raw SIP
message received from the line (note, it has several options, ie.
short/long header formats, headers are unordered, possible line breaks
etc.), so we want to send it to a codec for decoding. The codec will
decode it into an abstract TTCN-3 data e.g. SIP_PDU, this is the type of
decoded_value. Pls. note, the raw SIP message is a character string only
it doesn't need any identification of string encoding. My understanding
is that the string_serialization controls how our raw SIP message will
be serialized by the TE into a bitstring when sending to the codec. Pls.
correct me if I'm wrong.<br />
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Shall it appear in the TTCN-3 code or should it be a tool internal
issue, I do not really know, maybe allowing it in the TTCN-3 code gives
more option to change the codec.<br />
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Anyway, in both cases, if I'm correct or I'm wrong, the purpose of the
parameter seems to be unclear from the current text.<br />
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<td class="print">Textual description of the encvalue_unichar and
decvalue_unichar functions addded. Please review.</td>
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<td class="print">CR6785_v3.docx: no technical change, but a small
explanatory addition (in brackets) to CR6785_v2.docx.<br />
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Please check.</td>
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<td class="print">I have no objections. I think the CR can be marked as
resolved and it is ready to be added to the next version of the TTCN-3
core language standard.</td>
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