Re: strange character encode errors with SMPP!! help

David Tully schrieb:
> 
> I'm using SMPP and found similar problems, but put it down to the character
> set that the operator was using - which they told me was HP Roman-1..
> I found (by sending every hex value form 0x00 to 0xFF) that I needed to
> convert certain characters to a different value before sending in order to
> get them to display. Namely:
> 
> $text =~ s/%40/%7c/g;     # @ symbol
> $text =~ s/%24/%a4/g;     # $ symbol
> $text =~ s/%5F/%a7/g;     # _ symbol
> 
> I do this on a text message after URL encoding it..
> 
> I also found the following:
>     0x80 = euro symbol
>     0xE4 = £
> 
> Apologies if this isn't relevant.

for the SMPP module you can use 'alt-charset' to define to which
character set Kannel should encode before passing to the smsc.

Ie. we have for E-Plus (in Germany)

  group = smsc
  ...
  alt-charset = "HP-ROMAN8"

to transcode automacially (using iconv() routines) to the desired set.

Stipe

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