Re: Character set

Now I realise why I had no answer. ;-P

On Tuesday, 2003-07-15 at 01:27:15 AM, Benjamin Lee scribbled:
> Of all the SMSCs I've used... they all use GSM 7 bit packed octets, rather
> than septets.
> 
> A while back I was curious as to whether this was correct according to the
> SMPP specification... I had no answer.
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00099.html
> 
> On Tuesday, 2003-07-15 at 01:18:36 AM, Michael Mulcahy scribbled:
> > 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?
> > 
> > Comments welcome,
> > 
> > Michael.
> > 

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