Hi, Oscar
Ar an c�igi� l� is fiche de m� L�nasa, scr�obh Oscar Medina Duarte:
> The thing is, that I want to send and receive messages in with spanish
> using characters like ���������������� and other symbols like _
> (underscore).
Your email client didn't say what character set you're using in your last mail,
so the details of what characters got transformed into what aren't clear. (It
_looks_ like UTF-8, but maybe it isn't.)
But, Kannel, in general, behaves okay if you post latin-1 to sendsms. (It
shouldn't be using latin-1 at all--it should be defaulting to UTF-8, because
the Euro sign and the Greek characters in the GSM character set can't be
encoded in Latin 1. But that's a design argument that I'm not going to have
right now.)
What may be going wrong is that Java is passing UTF-8 to it; this would result,
for example, in an inverted exclamation mark reaching your phone as LATIN
CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX followed by INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK. (Except
that LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX isn't in the GSM character set.)
Another thing that may be broken is that your provider may not be using the GSM
character set for the SMPP link, as the standards say it should; in that case,
you've got a few long hours ahead of you working out exactly what character set
it is using, unless they can give you positive information on that. Once you've
worked out which character set to use, specify it with the "alt-charset" option
in your kannel.conf.
Bye, hope that helps,
- Aidan
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