As Alon Altman pointed out a couple of days ago, to allow sending Hebrew
SMSs all that was needed to do in SendSMS is just what I had suggested in
the comments.
I'm releasing a new version (2.1) of my SendSMS, at the usual place:
http://nadav.harel.org.il/software/sendsms
It can now send Hebrew SMSs to Orange and Cellcom phones that support it
(e.g., All of Orange's Nokias, Cellcom's 5120i and newer, etc. Orange's
Startac and Cellcom's original 5120 cannot show Hebrew SMSs). Just put
Hebrew (ISO-8859-8 encoding, logical order, to be precise) in the SMS
message.
I thoroughly checked the Hebrew support on Orange, but I need someone to
check it on Cellcom, please, and tell me if it works properly. I did not
try to do Pelephone Hebrew support - in fact, I have no idea if the current
code can't already just send Hebrew as-is.
Note that in some cases (e.g., Orange's Nokia phones) it is also possible
to send Latin1 (i.e., accented Latin characters, e.g., as in French)
messages: to tell sendsms that this is a Latin1 message, not Hebrew, use
the new "-l" option.
Sending ASCII messages (i.e., English) works the same as it worked before,
on all phones (even if they don't support Hebrew, of course).
There are some more interesting changes in this new version (2.1):
* Added a command line option "-u", for choosing the urgency of the message.
In this version it is only supported for Cellcom, and the options are:
"-u 1" (Normal), "-u 2" (Urgent), and "-u 3" (Emergency). This has nothing
to do with the speed of message delivery - it only changes the way the
message announcement looks. For example, on my Nokia phone, an Emergency
message is announced with "New Emergency Message" instead of "New Message"
(or something like that - I actually use a French interface, and don't
remember what the English interface looks like).
* As of April 2001, Cellcom has a fourth area code, 064 (no kidding! I
think the way Bezek is recycling area codes that existed for decades
is confusing and not fair...). I don't know anybody with a phone on
that area code, but the new version _should_ work with it too.
As a broken record, I would like to repeat the kind of testing I'm still
waiting for from people of this list (note that I don't need you to run
SendSMS yourself if you don't want - I can send you a message myself and
you'd just need to tell me what you got):
very easy to test:
1) Test SendSMS to Pelephone's 056 and 050 area codes
2) Test SendSMS with a Hebrew message to a Cellcom phone that supports
it (e.g., Nokia 5120i and newer).
requires a little more cooperation:
3) Test SendSMS with a Hebrew message to a Pelephone phone that supports
it. I have no idea if that would work, because I didn't add any explicit
Hebrew handling to the Pelephone part.
4) Test SendSMS with Mirs (057 area code). There's no code for it yet to
test - I'll code it once I know someone is willing to test it.
Thanks in advance,
Nadav.
--
Nadav Har'El | Saturday, May 5 2001, 12 Iyyar 5761
[EMAIL PROTECTED] |-----------------------------------------
Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |An egotist is a person of low taste,
http://nadav.harel.org.il |more interested in himself than in me.
=================================================================
To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
