Dear Ammar, Don't use charset and coding parameters till you are not using Unicode messages.
Special characters mentioned by you are common so encode the same with other English message and send. BR Tapan Thapa ------------------------------ From: Ammar Ali <ammarali3...@gmail.com> Sent: 5/30/2015 5:58 PM To: users@kannel.org Cc: Tapan Kumar Thapa <tapan.thapa2...@gmail.com>; Ammar Ali <ammarali3...@gmail.com> Subject: How to Send Special Characters Like @,#,!,$,%,^,&,* etc. Hello Team, Tapan Sir, When I'm sending message with special characters like @,#,!,$,%,^,&,* etc. and setting *charset=UTF-8 *and *coding=2, *then I'm getting exact message on cell phone. but there is an issue SMSC understand this unicode message and deducted sms credit twice. So please suggest me that how to resolve this problem as soon as possible. Thanks in advance *Regards* *Ammar Ali* *Pune (M.H.)*