I remember one smsc that "eats" IA5 chars and internally converts to gsm alphabet (I remember it because I couldn't use my fields_to_dcs in it)
-- Bruno David Rodrigues ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Fink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting sms messages > At 22:34 Uhr +0100 8.10.2001, Bruno David Rodrigues wrote: > >but what about if the charset used by the smsc is different ? we cannot > >assume that it will be the default gsm alphabet as was told here. > > > >-- > >Bruno David Rodrigues > > > We can only split in a location where we know which character set we > will be able to finally use. So if we do it in bearerbox, thats fine. > We will know how to split there. If we split in SMSBox we must be > able to predict if the destination is capable of the default GSM > alphabet (is there any SMSC which does NOT support the standard GSM > alphabet??). > -- > > Andreas Fink > Fink-Consulting > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Tel: +41-61-6932730 Fax: +41-61-6932729 Mobile: +41-79-2457333 > Address: A. Fink, Schwarzwaldallee 16, 4058 Basel, Switzerland > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.finkconsulting.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Something urgent? Try http://www.smsrelay.com/ Nickname afink > >
