As I found in our configuration for Persian SMS, we encode text to url and then send it to kannel I'm not sure you encode the text our not but with this procedure we send sms in any charset
On 8/24/07, Amr Qanadilo //AMC// <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well the issue with kannel is the Arabic keyword, sendin sms in Arabic is > easy now, but how can you define an Arabic sms. We have overcome all > difficulties in kannel except the Arabic keyword. > > > > *Amr Qanadilo* > ------------------------------ > > *From:* Hanna Kreitem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Friday, August 24, 2007 5:26 AM > *To:* Sarfaraz Jamal > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: send arabic sms > > > > Hello, > > Here I am using "&charset=utf-8&coding=2" instead of ucs2, and it is > working perfectly, just make sure that you are using UTF-8 all the way, > including the db. > > Hanna > > On 8/23/07, *Sarfaraz Jamal* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > We are struggling with this a lot, and we hope to have our service > launched before the Arab Ramadhan Season. > > It must be something simple, we are generating a URL to send to SENDSMS, > and the text seems to get messed up . we are encoding it, etc. in php but > the arabic text turns into nothing (it just disappears) > > And we are unsure of how to even send a basic string over http get. > > Can anyone just give a small heads up on how to do this? > > http://*********:13131/cgi-bin/sendsms?username=***&password=***&charset=UCS-2&coding=2&to=+962796627292&text=arabictext&dlr-mask=19 > > > Is this right? How can we test it just super simply? > > Sas > > > > On 8/23/07, *Hanna Kreitem* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Hello, > > Kannel sends Arabic message perfectly, just ake sure you are using the > correct encoding all the way, from db -> php -> kannel. Here I use UTF-8. > > > > Hanna > > > > On 8/21/07, *Amr Qanadilo* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear All; > > > > I have installed kannel on RedHat linux enterprise 4, i have configured it > and connected it to a service provider smsc. i have suceeded in sending and > receiving smses in english, but now i want to send smses in Arabic. is there > somethign i should do . i have used the UCS-2 put the 2 code with the > UTF16BE charset. but still not working!! am using PHP to send the sms using > URL. is there somethig in the PHP or Linux or even the kannel that i should > do in order to make it support sending arabic text? > > > > Plz Help > > > > > > -- > Best Regrds > > Amar Kalkeel > > > > > > > -- --Vahid Ghafarpour. http://vahid.ghafarpour.ir/ vahid at ghafarpour dot ir ghafarpour at gmail dot com
