Hi, I face the same problem:
- With alt-dcs = 0 I get the following 2009-05-05 22:22:33 [5168] [3] INFO: sendsms sender:<test2:1517> (10.1.21.146) to:<355672000000> msg:<> 2009-05-05 22:22:33 [5157] [7] DEBUG: short_message: "" The content is %00, but kannel converts it to empty space. - With alt-dcs=1; 2009-05-05 22:23:48 [5168] [3] INFO: sendsms sender:<test2:1517> (10.1.21.146) to:<355672000000> msg:<> 2009-05-05 22:23:48 [5157] [7] DEBUG: short_message: "?" Regards Elton On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Jovan Kostovski <chomb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Latitude Berlin > <latitude...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am sending some text with some german characters like: "test chars ÄÖÜ > > äöü" and I dont get the original content on my device. If I use UTF-8, > then > > it works fine. But I wanna use GSM charset for this since Ä, ä, Ö, ö, Ü, > ü > > are are of GMS charset. > > Kindly advise. > > Try the following test: > set alt-dcs=0 > > send %00 as message text. Yyou should get the @ character if GSM 7 bit > encoding is used > If you don't get that character set > alt-dcs=1 > and repeat the test. > > If you get the @ character, by sendind %00 as message test, then try > the umlauts, you should get them on your ME. > > HTH, Jovan > >