Does Kannel Support IA5

Hi,

 

We are using SMPP version 3.4 with Kannel CVS and Centos and for one
operator they require the IA5 character set.

Kannel is giving the following error:

 

2009-12-02 17:51:43 [2547] [23] ERROR: Failed to convert string from <UTF-8>
to <IA5> - probably broken type names.

2009-12-02 17:51:43 [2547] [23] ERROR: Failed to convert msgdata from
charset <UTF-8> to <IA5>, will send as is.

 

Would developers recommend using ASCII as the charset even though it not
exactly the same?  

Or is there any other way?

 

thanks