Thank you very much for your repley Thanos, I found the thread but I don’t seem to be able to find the patch.
Could you send it to me please? Thank you very much in advance Regards Dinos -----Original Message----- From: Thanos Chatziathanassiou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 12:32 PM To: Κωνσταντίνος Λιαδάκης Cc: 'Δημήτρης Ευμορφόπουλος' Subject: Re: CANT SEND GREEK CHARACTERS Κωνσταντίνος Λιαδάκης wrote: > > Hello again and thanks for your patience. > > I am doing the conversion like you suggested. If I use coding = 0 > which is 7bit I greek characters like Δ appear like ? on my mobile device > > If I set coding = 1 which is 8bit then Greeks appear ok in the mobile > but message is not 160 characters its less. > > In my conversion I convert Δ to %10 and so on. > > I even tried to add to each smsc configuration alt-charset. I tried > values like iso8859-1 and LATIN1 but no luck. > > Everything looks right to me, and I cannot see why it doesn’t work > since everyone else claims that it should be that way > > I have read each and every post regarding encoding………….. > You might want to try a patch for charset.c (kludge as Stipe Tolj delicately put it) in a thread called ``CIMD 2.0 & Greek'' between Kyriacos Sakkas, Stipe and myself that just passes through greek chars for GSM03.38 unaffected. As far as I know, it works just fine for the two of us using it, myself with 1.4.1 . YMMV Thanos Chatziathanassiou > Thank you very much > > Dinos > > *From:* Δημήτρης Ευμορφόπουλος [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:14 PM > *To:* Κωνσταντίνος Λιαδάκης > *Subject:* RE: CANT SEND GREEK CHARACTERS > > Here goes nothing … > > Greek is not straightforward in any way … there is a way to send text > in 7-bit and in UCS-2. > > Greek capital characters are in the GSM0338 set so you can use them to > send 7bit (encoding 0) or up to 160 characters per message, but you > need to convert the Greek capital letters that do not exist in the set > to their equivalent Latin characters, and you need to make sure that > the whole message is in caps for the Greek letters > > Sending Greek text without GSM0338 conversion means that you need to > use UCS-2 (encoding = 2) to send the messages or up to 70 characters > per message. > > The actual encoding of your web page is irrelevant … Since you need to > do hard core conversion to GSM0338 or a light conversion to UCS-2 you > are free to choose the source encoding of your page. Admittedly using > UTF8 is the most convenient way, but then that might be just me … > > Finally what you need to put in kannel is again irrelevant since you > would need to do some conversion by hand before passing it on to > kannel for transmission. > > If the above is not clear feel free to contact me. I don’t charge that > much per hour ;-) > > *Dimitris Evmorfopoulos* > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* Κωνσταντίνος Λιαδάκης [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Thursday, July 19, 2007 8:16 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* CANT SEND GREEK CHARACTERS > > Hello, > > I am trying to send greek characters with kannel. > > I have tried using 1.4.1 and CVS version which I suppose they require > different encodings… > > Can somebody help me clear things in my mind…. > > I need to know the following if possible: > > 1. the encoding my webpage must have > > 2. what coding I need to set for kannel > > 3. If I need to put in kannel.conf any charset values (iso-8859-1, > utf, e.t.c) > > I would like some answers of the above questions for both stable > release and CVS > > I have read documentation, and have tried almost any combination. SMSC > I use are both smpp and UCP/EMI > > Thank you very much in advance for your help > > Kind regards > > Dinos > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.9/907 - Release Date: > 18/7/2007 3:30 μμ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.10/908 - Release Date: > 19/7/2007 6:10 μμ > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.2/931 - Release Date: > 1/8/2007 4:53 μμ > No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.2/933 - Release Date: 2/8/2007 2:22 ìì No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.2/933 - Release Date: 2/8/2007 2:22 ìì
