Re: Problems receiving @ symbol in cvs-20030811

On Donnerstag, August 14, 2003, at 07:04  Uhr, Bill Brigden wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Using kannel cvs-20030811, I have sent a mobile originating message 
> that
> comes in via smpp 3.4:
>
> This is bill's test... @ ? "
>
> But smsbox posts it to me like:
>
> This+is+bill's+test...+%A1+%3F+%22


This is almost the same but URL encoded.

> So why is smsbox taking the @ symbol as A1 and not 40?

> Whats happening here - Ive tried using mo-recode, but that makes no
> difference....
>

but:

2003-08-14 18:01:03 [8] DEBUG:    Octet string at 0x840f038:
2003-08-14 18:01:03 [8] DEBUG:      len:  28
2003-08-14 18:01:03 [8] DEBUG:      size: 29
2003-08-14 18:01:03 [8] DEBUG:      immutable: 0
2003-08-14 18:01:03 [8] DEBUG:      data: 54 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 62 69 
6c
6c 27 73 20 74   This is bill's t
2003-08-14 18:01:03 [8] DEBUG:      data: 65 73 74 2e 2e 2e 20 40 20 3f 
20
22               est... @ ? "
2003-08-14 18:01:03 [8] DEBUG:    Octet string dump ends.
2003-08-14 18:01:03 [8] DEBUG: SMPP PDU dump ends.

this shows what you get on SMPP.
This is supposed to be 00 in SMPP as SMPP transports your data in GSM 
character set.
I think your SMPP provider is screwing it up...
Maybe they use a Comverse SMSC (a good default for screwed up SMSC's...)

Andreas Fink
Global Networks Switzerland AG

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