Re: Character set

On Montag, Juli 14, 2003, at 05:18  Uhr, Michael Mulcahy wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> In a similar problem to Davids (below), we are doing a test to an SMPP
> SMSC and they are sending back message text encoded as 7 bit packed GSM
> alphabet.
>
> Even though the SMPP driver calls:
> charset_gsm_to_latin1(msg->sms.msgdata);
>
> this does not convert 7 bit packed GSM data to latin 1, it only
> converts 8 bit packed GSM data. Should this function unpack 7 bit data 
> or
> is it presumed that will always only get 8 bit GSM encoded characters?

gsm_to_latin1 is converting the charsets only
there's an additional call before which does the 7 to 8 bit conversion. 
This is dependent on the DCS value.
If the DCS value says its 8 bit packed data, it wont do the 7 to 8 bit 
conversion of course.
>
Andreas Fink
Global Networks Switzerland AG

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