Re: UTF8 characters replaced by question marks

Hi Milos

Are you url-encoding the text you are sending?

Regards

Alvaro
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Le mer. 6 mai 2020 à 14:20, Milos Savic <[email protected]> a écrit :

> Hi Davor,
>
> Thank you for you reply.
>
> I tried to add &coding=2 to send-url under smsc http group, but nothing
> happens. The coding parameter does end up in the dummy service. If you
> meant to add that to the application sending the request - unfortunately, I
> am not able to do that.
>
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 9:05 PM Davor Spasoski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> You also need to set coding=2 and charset to utf-8. Only in that case
>> kannel will know that you are submitting something outside the gsm 7-bit
>> alphabet.
>>
>> BR,
>> Davor
>>
>> On May 6, 2020, at 20:44, Milos Savic <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am testing a kannel installation which is supposed to send sms between
>> a python service and a sms aggregator. Regular SMSs work, so I replaced the
>> receiver with a service for testing purposes, which only logs outgoing
>> messages.
>>
>> I am using kannel from Ubuntu repositories, version 1.4.4-5, with a
>> generic type smsc, directed to my dummy receiving service, with
>>
>> send-url = http://proxy:9999/send?from=%P&to=&p&text=%b&message_id=%I
>>
>> What happens is that I send a test message with utf-8 characters, such as
>> šđčćžшђчћж, and at the end I get a message "????? ?????", with all
>> characters replaced with question marks.
>>
>> smsbox log shows a valid message, "sendsms sender:____ (<ip address>) to:
>> <recipient> msg:<šđčćž шђчћж>, all charactes valid and shown properly.
>>
>> the matching bearerbox log entry states:
>> Parsing URL `http://proxy:9999/send?from=8088&to=<encoded
>> recipient>&text=%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F+%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F&message_id=<uuid of the
>> message'
>>
>> The request at the proxy is, of course, equivalent to the parsed query.
>>
>> What happens to UTF8 characters? I tried alt-charset on smsc, but that
>> made no changes at all. It seems to me that they get lost somewhere in
>> communication between smsbox and smsc (according to logs).
>>
>> Any hints on solving this would be highly appreciated. Thank you!
>>
>>
>>
>>
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