**>From: "Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
**>To: "Davy Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Guillaume Cottenceau" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
**>Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
**>Subject: Re: Chinese SMS
**>Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:13:39 +0800
**>
**>>This is an artifact of the "GREAT MIGRATION FROM 0 MEANING UNDEFINED"
**>>awhile back. Kannel up to v1.3.2 did not have a clear definintion
**>>of what to put into parameters (like Coding, MWI, RPI, MClass, etc).
**>>Some used zero to represent undefined values but zero could be
**>>a value for some parameters (like MWI, RPI).
**>>
**>>Also, there wasn't a clear standard on whether to start the parameters
**>>with a count from 0..1..2 or 1..2..3.
**>>
**>>As a result, the value of -1 is now declared as meaning "UNDEFINED"
**>>and all parameters start from zero.
**>>
**>>My example was for v1.3.1 (sorry for not including that in my
**>>reply...was typing to fast...).
**>>
**>>If you are using versions prior to v1.3.2, then the coding for
**>>UCS-2 (double-byte) characters is "3"; 8-bit binary (like STK
**>>provisioning) is is "2"; 7-bit GSM7 character set is "1" or "0".
**>>
**>>If you are using versions after v1.3.1 (v1.3.2, v1.4.0 stable, and
**>>CVS head) then UCS-2 is "2"; 8-bit binary is "1"; GSM7 character
**>>set is "0"; and undefined coding is "-1".
**>>
**>>Hope that clears things for everyone.
**>>
**>>See ya...
**>>
**>>d.c.
**>>
**>>
**>
**>Thank you, Davy Chan.
**>I submited something like the following.
**>http://localhost:12345/cgi-bin/sendsms?username=u&password=p&to=91239123&text=%a4%a4%a4%e5&coding=2
**>But I still experience the unreadable Chinese words.
**>Is there something I missed?
The code %A4%A4%A4%E5 ("Chinese") is in Big5. You need to send the
UCS-2 [UTF-16BE] encoding: %4E%2D%65%87.
See ya...
d.c.
