Re: Does Kannel Support IA5

Why not simply use UTF-8  as the character set to submit? Kannel converts it to the GSM character set when possible or to UCS2.

On 03.12.2009, at 16:52, Hillel wrote:

> 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