Re: send Arabic sms

Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:

> "alaa aaaaa" <alaa_info2005 'at' hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Hi every one
>>
>>i use kannel1.4.0 in windows xp
>>i sent English sms using kannel sms gateway and smpp protocol successfully.
>>Now i need to send Arabic sms ,what changes should i do to do that ?
> 
> 
> You need to use UCS2 (and you have to know that one SMS is
> limited to 70 characters then). When using the send-sms interface
> to send an MT, use coding=2 and put the message in the text=
> field. The message needs to be expressed with the UTF16BE
> charset. Check the kannel user-guide documentation if needed,
> these settings are described.
> 
> Notice: how to convert your message to UTF16BE depends on your
> software environment and I don't know windoze myself.

in some cases an other option to UCS-2 is possible to obtain the "full" SMS 
payload length:

In SMPP the DCS value defines the character set encoding. SMPP does not define a 
reserved value for arrabic, but it may be possible that the SMSC provider has an 
assigned DCS value for a specific arabic encoding set. Please contact him 
directly to ask if they have assigned a DCS value for a specific arrabic encoding.

In any case: use CVS HEAD instead of 1.4.0, it's a 1.4.1RC.

Stipe

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