Re: Problems with charset

Hi,

could you please post your sendsms URL you used and smsbox + bearerbox debug
logs?

Stefan Cars wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> On another strange thing is that if I send in UTF-8 instead of ISO
> (without charset=) kannel.log says:
> 
> Failed to convert msgdata from charset <ISO-8859-1> to <ISO-8859-1>, will
> send as is. And my handset does not receive the message...
> 
> Kind Regards,
> stefan Cars
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Andreas Fink wrote:
> 
>> I think the correct writing would be to say charset=iso-8850-1 or you
>> simply
>> send it as UTF-8 which  is lossless.
>>
>> On 02.09.2007, at 13:51, Stefan Cars wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> We have upgraded an old Kannel server to latest cvs and have some
>>> trouble handling charsets.  As I understand, earlier ISO-8859-1 was
>>> standard charset but now UTF-8 is standard.
>>> 
>>> Our SMPP link has ISO-8859-1 as charset and this works well,
>>> alt-charset is set and smsbox delivers the SMSes correctly, although
>>> in the access_log since the upgrade the Swedish characters can't be
>>> viewed. (Shown has dots).
>>> 
>>> More of a problem is the fact that we can't send through the CGI
>>> sendsms interface anymore, all swedish characters does get corrupted
>>> and adding charset=latin1 (as prosposed in a mail from alxeander
>>> malysh in a mail when he submitted the patch to convert) is not
>>> working, we get an error saying "Charset or body misformed, rejected".
>>> We can't convert all applications sending in ISO-8859-1 to send in
>>> UTF-8, it must be possible to send ISO-8859-1 to /sendsms ?
>>> 
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> Stefan Cars
>>
> 
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Thanks,
Alex