Re: Help to understand the encoding types

Oh - my bad. alt-dcs=1 was 11110fmm and alt-dcs=2 was 00cmffmm.

Med venlig hilsen / Best regards

Peter Christensen

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Peter Christensen wrote:
> Hi Hillel,
> 
> 1)
> coding=1 is for binary messages. Neither GSM nor unicode.
> 
> 2)
> With coding=1, charset should have no effect, since the message is 
> binary data (would be quite disastrous if Kannel parsed the binary data 
> as character data and did some charset conversions)
> 
> 3)
> With alt-dcs=1, the DCS field in the SMS is encoded as 00cmffmm 
> (binary), where c is compression, m is message class and f is message 
> coding (GSM/UCS2/8-bit data).
> With alt-dcs=2, DCS is encoded as 11110fmm, which will always set a 
> message class and can only choose between GSM charset and 8-bit data.
> At least, this is how I have understood the setting. Check out GSM TS 
> 03.38 for more info.
> 
> -- 
> Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
> 
> Peter Christensen
> 
> Developer
> ------------------
> Cool Systems ApS
> 
> Tel: +45 2888 1600
>  @ : [email protected]
> www: www.coolsystems.dk
> 
> 
> Hillel wrote:
>> Dear Kannel Developers.
>>
>>> From the user guide:
>> http://kannel.org/download/kannel-userguide-snapshot/userguide.html#AEN4179 
>>
>>
>> I'd like learn to send these coding types using Kannel. Any help on
>> understanding the spec correctly appreciated. I sent this to the users 
>> list,
>> but have not yet received any response.
>>
>> 1)Is this correct?
>> For GSM alphabet which has coding of 7bits
>>  - use coding = 0 & charset = ISO-8859-1
>> For ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) which has coding of 7bits
>>  - use coding = 0 & charset = ISO-8859-1
>> For Unicode which has coding of 8bits
>>  - use coding = 1 & charset = UTF-16BE
>> For UCS2 which has coding UCS-2
>>   - use coding = 2 & charset = UTF-16BE
>>
>> 2)For ringtones or Logos is this correct?
>>  set udh for the ringtone or logo and coding is set to 8bits
>>  - use coding = 1 & charset = UTF-16BE
>>
>> 3)When do you use alt-dcs? When do you use FX and 0X?
>>> From the User Guide "Optional. If unset, Kannel uses the alt-dcs 
>>> defined on
>> smsc configuration, or 0X per default. If equals to 1, uses FX. If 
>> equals to
>> 0, force 0X."
>>
>> Wishing the Kannel developers list seasons greetings and a prosperous 
>> 2006.
>> I'd also like to thank the Kannel developers for giving the Kannel 
>> community
>> such a great product.
>>
>> Rgds
>>
>>
>>
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