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 >> > >
