ביום שלישי 04 יולי 2006, 07:39, נכתב על ידי Omer Zak:
> My ideas:
> 1. Use a modern ICQ client (I use Kopete, but never tried to send SMS
> messages via ICQ).  vicq is unsupported since 2002 or so.
> Or use the sendsms script.

I need it to run on a remote system where I have no root privileges, and no 
GUI programs. Also I want to run it as a script, so Kopete will not do. 

AFAIK SendSMS is broken:
Nadav Har'El on May 30, 2006 said: "Unfortunately, [...] ICQ no longer appear 
to have an SMS sending form on their web site. This situation is not new - it 
happened about a year ago, and unfortunately since then I never modified 
SendSMS to use an alternative technique."

> 2. To send legally-formatted Hebrew SMS message, certain flags in the
> system parts of the message need to be correctly set for it to have 70
> Unicode characters rather than 160 Latin characters.  vicq probably does
> not have those flags correctly set.  I do not have vicq on my PC (it is
> supposed to be a Perl script), so I did not check this.

I will look into it. Any pointers to specific information will be welcome.

>                                          --- Omer

Thanks,
-- Chen.

> On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 07:05 +0300, Levy, Chen wrote:
> > Hi, List.
> >
> > I am trying to use vicq to send myself a Hebrew SMS message.
> >
> > my $LANG is en_US.UTF-8
> >
> > my phone is a Samsung 620 with Pelephone
> >
> > I use a script such as:
> > - - -
> > #!/bin/bash
> > MSG=$@
> > TMSG=$(echo $MSG | iconv -f utf8 -t <encoding>)
> > CMD="sms 97250<my-phone-number>/$TMSG\nquit\n"
> > echo -ne $CMD | ./vicq
> > - - -
> >
> > I already tried:
> > - - -
> > * utf8 (not using the iconv at all): "*עברית*" -> hChCEhVhC*
> > Actually, it gave my phone a new feature. I can now hang it simply by
> > viewing that message. The phone back light stay on, and the phone get no
> > input for about 60 seconds, and then it shut off, without the little
> > annoying animation.
> > * ISO88598: "*עברית*" -> *tbshj'*
> > * unicode: "*עברית שפה קשה* -> jaju*v S i Sch k
> >
> > j d F
> > z J F *
> > - - -
> >
> > Ideas?

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