RE: special symbols with 7-bit encoding

Thank you Andreas,
You are absolutely right, this is a problem of SMSC where we are connected.
I checked SMPP traffic between kannel and SMSC, kannel encodes these symbols correctly 
according to gsm03.38 if they are sent in windows-1252.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Fink [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 21:20
To: Igor Ivoilov
Subject: Re: special symbols with 7-bit encoding


This might be dependent on the SMSC type you use.

On 19.02.2008, at 07:53, Igor Ivoilov wrote:

> Please advice how to specify symbols like euro,yen,pound,dollar,@  
> and brackets {} and [] in post request to the kannel.
> I need to use 7-bit coding, so I specify coding=0,  
> charset=windows-1252 and
> I tried to use windows-1252 codes of these symbols and gsm 03.38  
> codes.
> In both cases some garbage is coming to mobile, different in these 2  
> cases.
>
> My kannel has version 1.4.1 and is connected to provider through smpp.
> Strange that I can send capital greek letters with their gsm03.38  
> codes without any problem.
>
> So what is the difference between $ and greek letters?
>
> Thanks,
> Igor
>
>