The coded characters in the URL you sent do not look like arabic characters - they looks like mostly english with a few characters that I do not recognize. I suggest you read up your unicode tables again. alternative will be to code your URL using utf-8 and then set charset=utf-8 in the URL, which will tell kannel to recode the message from UTF-8 to unicode used on the GSM network.
-- Oded Arbel m-Wise Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (972)-67-340014 (972)-9-9581711 (ext: 116) ::.. * Formal specifications yield correct programs. No. Formal specifications yield PhD theses. They may also occasionally yield programs as by-products, but no useful ones. -- Ronald F. Guilmette > -----Original Message----- > From: Go Fast [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 3:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: sending unicode > > > Hi list, > > I tried the following url to send arabic characters. > http://XXXXXXXXXXX/cgi-bin/sendsms?user=xx&pass=xx&to=xx&text= > %00%41%00%72%00%61%00%62%00%20%06%30%06%35%06%36&coding=3 > > the characters were sent to a nokia 3310. the hex > representation of these chars was obtained from the > unicode charts at unicode.org. I also tried to > include > &charset=ucs2 in the above url. > > However, what i get on the phone is a different > characters from what was sent. > > i get english characters and numbers with ? symbol > > Why is this happening? > > Regards, > Sami > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience > http://launch.yahoo.com > >