:)
its not kannel related issue here,
yes, UCS2 is not primary character set, but its used to deliver the non
Latin1 characters.
well, by my knowledge,
there is no other way to encode äöü etc accents characters sent
to mobile devices
try to get the encoding of incoming from your smsc characters similar to
äöü ..
hope someone else will help you more
Falko Ziemann wrote:
> Yes, there are similar issues on the list, but I couldn't find a real
> solution for it.
> There were some chats about hardcoding the DCS or asking the operator to
> alter the charset, but there must be some possibility to make kannel
> talk ISO ... or not?!
>
> But I didn't get this UCS2-thing...
> The systems "feeding" kannel use ISO-8859-15, my service-provider is
> expecting ISO-8859-1, kannel produces IA5. So where is the benefit to
> make ISO-8859-15 to UCS2 before I post it to kannel? By the way: I have
> set up 4 SMSC from diffrent vendors (and I'm talking about real SS7 SMSC
> in MNO enviroments, ok all in western europe) but I have never seen a
> SMSC using UCS2 or UTF-16 as primary charset, that would be a 2 byte
> encoding for a 7 bit charset. And I absolutly don't want kannel to talk
> UCS2 for that would cut down the payload per message to 70 characters.
>
> Regards
> Falko
>
> seikath schrieb:
>> Search the list for identical issues, they are common
>> the smsc uses UCS2 anyway
>> use iconv to convert from your german encofing to UCS2
>>
>> example of perl implementation of Bulgarian Cyrilic cp1251
>> before xml post to be injected
>> if ($data->{cyr} == 1) {
>> $encoding="ucs-2be";
>> $converter = Text::Iconv->new("cp1251", $encoding);
>> $data->{sms}= $converter->convert($data->{sms});
>> $data->{sms}= hex_encode($data->{sms}, '%');
>> $coding=2;
>> $alt_dcs=-1;
>> }
>>
>> php is much convenient
>>
>> Falko Ziemann wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I try to send some special character (german umlauts äöü) over a smpp
>>> connection to a smsc running iso-8859-1 charset. My config says:
>>> alt-charset = ISO-8859-1
>>>
>>> But I see in the connection log:
>>> [...]
>>> 2008-11-11 16:10:35 [4332] [12] DEBUG: data: 78 20 7c 7b 7e 24 00
>>> 20 31 36 3a 31 30 x |{~$. 16:10
>>> [...]
>>> which are umlauts in IA5 (7c 7b 7e).
>>>
>>> gw_config.h says: #define HAVE_ICONV_H 1
>>> iconv -l contains ISO-8859-1
>>>
>>> Can I anyone tell how get kannel to accept the alt-charset? The provider
>>> only supports 8859-1 (yeah, that's sick, I know...)
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Falko
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
