RE: That pesky @ sign

> I wonder whether anyone out there has had this
> problem, and what solution they've discovered:
>
> When a user sends the '@' character in an sms, on some
> SMSCs, kannel receives '@', on other it receives NULL
> (as per GSM character spec). Now in the former case,
> gwlib/charset.c will cause convert and cause kannel to
> pass on the wrong character!
>  What's the solution here, if any? I keep having to
> recompile kannel for the specific smsc, after changing
> gwlib/charset.c a little. Not cool.

I implemented an option for a smsc group to convert the @ to 0x40 and
vice-versa, separately for incoming and outgoing messages.

k