Nikos, Yes correct but then would Jovan suggestion work for Greek, Chinese, Hindi & lets say any other character set?
Also did you got any idea about issue i am facing while using sqlbox? On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Nikos Balkanas <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, but in doing so you waste half of the SMS capacity. With Jovan's > sugestion you don't. > > BR, > Nikos > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* preeteesh kakkar <[email protected]> > *To:* Jovan Kostovski <[email protected]> > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:52 AM > *Subject:* Re: Help needed for sending Utf-8 characters using Kannel > > Hi Jovan, > > Thanks for your reply. I understand what you mean but what i have decided > now is to actually do Percent encoding for URIs for text message. Doing this > will help send message in any language. > > I did same & used http interface of kannel & it works fine for sending any > symbol's Euro or chinese language symbol etc though i have to set coding=2 & > charset=utf-8. For example > > > http://ip:13013/cgi-bin/sendsms?username=test&password=test&to=111111&smsc=testsmsc&from=12345&text=%E2%82%AC%E2%82%AC%E2%82%AC%E2%82%AC%E2%82%AC%E2%82%AC%E2%82%AC%E2%82%AC%E2%82%AC%E2%82%AC%E2%82%AC%E2%82%AC%E2%82%AC%E2%82%AC%E2%82%AC%E2%82%AC&coding=2&charset=UTF-8 > > > But if i do same using sqlbox it doesn't works fine. Can you kindly help ? > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Jovan Kostovski <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:05 AM, preeteesh kakkar >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi Kiran, >> > >> > I have already read this document & have played with setting alt-dcs as >> 1 as >> > well as alt-charset i can get ññ to work fine but not the Euro Sign. >> >> The Euro sign is not defined in the defaut 7bit GSM 03.38. For the Euro >> sign >> you have to use ISO-8859 charset. >> This means you'll have to use ISO-8859 encoding for the message text. >> alt-dcs = 0 and set the proper codes for these characters. >> >> http://www.dreamfabric.com/sms/default_alphabet.html >> >> BR, Jovan >> > >
