Re: possible re-encoding bug ?

Peter Farmer wrote:

> Developers,
> 
> I have asked this question on the users list , but have had no response. Since 
> it appears to be a bug I guess maybe I should have tried this forum first, 
> but I was not sure that it wasn't just my misunderstanding of kannel 
> configuration options. Can anyone help shed some light on the behaviour I am 
> observing ?.
> 
> I am experiencing a problem with character recoding when passing thru the
> bearer box to the sms box . According to the specs the gsm encoding for the
> dollar symbol ($) is 0x02 .    It should (?)  then be converted to the 
> ISO-8859-1 encoding of 0x24  for internal use by kannel and eventually end up
> being embedded as the $ char in any http url that I insert the message
> content into.
> The bearerbox debugging logs display this character in the incoming message
>  as $ - I presume it has been already been converted from 0x02 before display
>  in the log ? . The smsbox debug log shows the equivalent char in the
>  outgoing generated url as %A4 which is what the urlencoding for ISO-8859-1
>  the generic currency symbol that looks a bit like  '#'  ( ¤ ). This is what
>  the gsm_to_latin1 mapping in the kannel src code  is set up to map the GSM
>  byte value 0x24 to .
> So it either appears that there has been an incorrect double remapping of the
> message content ( the '$' char encoding translates from 0x02 to 0x24 and hence 
> to 0xA4) 
> OR
> the incoming message encoding is NOT using the GSM 03.38 character set - even
> though the bearerbox log shows it as being the default encoding
> ( data_coding: 0 = 0x00000000 )
> 
> Can any one comment on this behaviour ? Am I right in thinking this is a bug
>  - or I am I missing something about the behaviour of the SMS system
>  implenented for the mobile networks in Australia or perhaps about the way I
>  should configure kannel ?

I get confused ;) maybe because I had to less sleep last night.

Can you point it out with debug log file snippets, so we can "trace" what you 
meen in how the dollar symbol is coded. Thanks in advance.

Stipe

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