Re: send Arabic sms
Stipe Tolj <[email protected]>
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Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Stipe Tolj <st 'at' tolj.org> writes:
>
>
>>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.
>
>
> Ah, nice to know. But what about SMSC<->phone? Your solution
> supposes that the phones also support an alternative charset for
> arabic transport? Because if the SMSC needs to recode as UCS2 to
> send to the phone then the win is minimal (e.g. SMS splitted).
correct...
So it's still a "tricky" thing, since you would depend on the phone and it's
support for some (non commonly used) ISO-8x or whatever charset.
Stipe
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