We have come across such a beast, and decided that it was indeed non standard and not conforming. We did make a patch for this unamed provider - but we dont use them anymore so I dumped the patches. But yes basically we just pulled the code from the AT module
Nisan - At 11:39 PM 2003/12/26, Benjamin Lee wrote:
I, also, haven't come across any SMSC's using packed GSM03.38 encoding, only 7 bit GSM03.38 transported in 8 bit octets.
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On Friday, 2003-12-26 at 10:40:39 PM, Ian Cass scribbled:
> Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
>
> > The SMPP SMSC made by ZTE (http://www.zte.com.cn) apparently sends and
> > expects to receive GSM SMS text packed in that way, oddly enough. Does
> > SMPP 3.3/3.4 say that it should be received unpacked or packed? Don't
> > have the specs on hand...
>
> Well, section 4.4 submit_sm says that a short_message is field type Octet
> String. Section 2.11 defines this as "Octet String A series of octets, not
> necessarily NULL terminated". 7bit characters are not octets, they are
> septets. However, you could argue that by packing them, you are transferring
> them as octets thereby fulfilling the spec.
>
> Having said that, SMPP does not define any method to tell you that the data
> is in fact packed. Section 5.2.19 data_coding *is not* the GSM DCS field
> even though most SMSC's use it as such. SMPP uses data_coding merely as a
> character set indicator & breaks other functions of GSM03.38 DCS out into
> other fields. SMPP data_coding does not allow for indication of packed data
> & there is no other field available to indicate that the data is packed. Are
> ZTE treating the data_coding field as GSM DCS & setting the packing bit?
>
> Strictly speaking, packed text is not allowed in SMPP. I don't know of any
> other SMPP SMSC that does this by default.
>
> --
> Ian Cass
>
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