Re: Sending SMS in Hebrew

Sorry for the long delay, the user who wanted to send Hebrew SMS let it
drop but once again requested it.

I cannot type or display Hebrew on my terminal.  I don't want to try.  I
want to compose my message in hexidecimal - I can write ISO-8859-8 Hebrew
in Hex.  For example, Aleph is E0, Bet is E1, and so on.

So I tried setting LC_CTYPE=C.ISO-8859.8 and running
echo -en 'utf8 \xe0\xe1\xe2' | gnokii --config debug.rc --sendsms
0548000013 -8

I still get the characters for E0, E1 and E2 in ISO-8859-1, lowercase a's
with various accents on them.  I see the E0, E1, and E2 characters in the
AT+CMGS command.  I don't mind doing the character conversion myself, but
when I tried piping the SMS through iconv -f iso-8859-8 -t utf-8, the only
difference was that the CMGS data was
[07917952140230F211000A8150840000310008AA160075007400660038002000D7009000D7009100D70092^Z]
and what displayed on my phone was three pairs of x and a hollow rectangle.
 I see D790 in there, which is UTF-8 for Aleph.  I think it's still
displaying in ISO-8859-1, where D7 is a multiplication sign and 90 is
undefined.

debug.rc at http://pastebin.com/rKT42duV
output at http://pastebin.com/bzCbKKX8


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Warren Burstein
<[email protected]>wrote:

> I've got a Nokia 3120 classic, Revision V 09.41.  Up to now I've been
> sending SMSs in English, but someone wanted to send a Hebrew SMS.  I tried
> both ISO-8859-8, which came out as lower-case latin vowels with accents
> (which occupy the same place in ISO-8859-1 as the Hebrew letters), and
> UTF-8, which printed a x and a hollow rectangle for each character.
>
> Then I tried UCS2, which printed a rectangle and a character I couldn't
> identify for each letter.  My tests were sent to phones which can send and
> receive Hebrew SMSs to each other.
>
> I looked at debug output, and saw that my phone's response to AT+CSCS=?
> is  ("UCS2","GSM","PCCP437","PCDN","IRA","8859-1","HEX") after which gnokii
> sends  AT+CSCS="GSM"
>
> So it seems to me (correct me if I'm wrong) that I want to set the phone's
> character set to UCS2, or describe Hebrew in GSM.
>
> The Wikipedia page on the GSM character set didn't make sense to me about
> Hebrew, it said there's no defined national language shift table, and
> then went on to seem to say that support was added but only "to identify
> the language of the message"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_03.38
>
> So, is there a way to describe Hebrew in GSM?  Or, if I have to use UCS2,
> how do I get gnokii to tell the phone to use it?  It looks to me like this
> depends on the value of the environment variable LOCALE (which is currently
> ISO-8859-1) but I didn't find in the documentation a table telling me what
> I should change it to. (If I haven't looked at the right page of
> documentation, please tell me what I should use, maybe there's a page at
> the gnokii wiki that tells how to send SMSs in various languages, and if
> there isn't, should I start one for Hebrew, and people can then add their
> own languages?)
>
> Thanks
>

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