OK, I will try that out to see how it goes.

Thanks!
Eduardo


El 12 de agosto de 2011 21:40, Nikos Balkanas <[email protected]>escribió:

> Hi,
>
> As correctly stated, although iso-8859-7 has some unused space, Euro sign
> is not supported. To send Greek characters with euro sign in 1 byte, you
> have to use GSM. Euro sign is then in the extended GSM section. You will
> have also to add support from your application. You need to map all Greek
> chars that you need to equivalent upper case Latin chars without accents.
> i.e:
>
> ά -> A
> β -> B
> etc.
>
> The few that cannot be mapped to Latin you will have to map in your
> application to their equivalent binary code and send their value as GSM.
> That includes the Euro sign (0x1B 0x65)
>
> HTH,
> Nikos
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Eduardo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I am dealing with a project where we need to send MTs with greek
>> characters but also the Euro symbol.
>> I don´t want to encode the message as binary because it would only allow
>> half of the 160 characters, since each greek char would use 2 bytes.
>>
>> I have tried using coding=0 and charset=ISO-8859-7 and greek chars get
>> delivered just fine, but I can´t get the Euro symbol to go through because
>> it belongs to ISO-8859-15.
>> Does anyone know of any combination of data_coding and charset that would
>> achieve both greek chars and Euro symbol without using 2 bytes per char?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eduardo
>>
>
>

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