strange character encode errors with SMPP!! help

Stipe they are using a CMG smsc SMPP 3.3
charset=ISO-8859-1

what is strange is that the Characters display fine in the accesslog file by
come out strange in the kannel log file see below

normal access file send process

 [to:18763753224] [flags:0:1:0:0:0]      [msg:41: test char =  @ at $ dollar
' Apostrophe ] [udh:0:]
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Now notice how the  @ and $ sign are sent back as . (dots)


2003-04-15 15:43:30 [10] DEBUG:   short_message:
2003-04-15 15:43:30 [10] DEBUG:    Octet string at 0x80f3ad0:
2003-04-15 15:43:30 [10] DEBUG:      len:  41
2003-04-15 15:43:30 [10] DEBUG:      size: 42
2003-04-15 15:43:30 [10] DEBUG:      immutable: 0
2003-04-15 15:43:30 [10] DEBUG:      data: 20 74 65 73 74 20 63 68    test
ch
2003-04-15 15:43:30 [10] DEBUG:      data: 61 72 20 3d 20 20 00 20   ar =  .
2003-04-15 15:43:30 [10] DEBUG:      data: 61 74 20 02 20 64 6f 6c   at .
dol
2003-04-15 15:43:30 [10] DEBUG:      data: 6c 61 72 20 27 20 41 70   lar '
Ap
2003-04-15 15:43:30 [10] DEBUG:      data: 6f 73 74 72 6f 70 68 65
ostrophe
2003-04-15 15:43:30 [10] DEBUG:      data: 20
2003-04-15 15:43:30 [10] DEBUG:    Octet string dump ends.


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also the apostrophe sign works file as a text response inside the symbol
kannel for but is returned as  ü / '     when using a CGI why?