Re: Character set

Gosh, of course! I guess all the SMSCs I've used must have implemented the
DCS value correctly... so everything works...

On Tuesday, 2003-07-15 at 01:19:36 AM, Andreas Fink scribbled:
>  
> 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 
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