Of all the SMSCs I've used... they all use GSM 7 bit packed octets, rather than septets.
A while back I was curious as to whether this was correct according to the SMPP specification... I had no answer. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00099.html On Tuesday, 2003-07-15 at 01:18:36 AM, Michael Mulcahy scribbled: > Hi All, > > In a similar problem to Davids (below), we are doing a test to an SMPP > SMSC and they are sending back message text encoded as 7 bit packed GSM > alphabet. > > Even though the SMPP driver calls: > charset_gsm_to_latin1(msg->sms.msgdata); > > this does not convert 7 bit packed GSM data to latin 1, it only > converts 8 bit packed GSM data. Should this function unpack 7 bit data or > is it presumed that will always only get 8 bit GSM encoded characters? > > Comments welcome, > > Michael. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > > David Tully > > Sent: 09 July 2003 14:50 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Character set > > > > > > Hi > > > > I'm struggling to get this connection fully working - it's > > the one with the > > non-standard message_id that I was mailing about last week. > > > > I'm told it's GSM-7.. > > > > 2003-07-09 12:46:39 [6] DEBUG: data_coding: 0 = 0x00000000 > > 2003-07-09 12:46:39 [6] DEBUG: sm_default_msg_id: 0 = 0x00000000 > > 2003-07-09 12:46:39 [6] DEBUG: sm_length: 4 = 0x00000004 > > 2003-07-09 12:46:39 [6] DEBUG: short_message: > > 2003-07-09 12:46:39 [6] DEBUG: Octet string at 0x80d1f78: > > 2003-07-09 12:46:39 [6] DEBUG: len: 4 > > 2003-07-09 12:46:39 [6] DEBUG: size: 5 > > 2003-07-09 12:46:39 [6] DEBUG: immutable: 0 > > 2003-07-09 12:46:39 [6] DEBUG: data: d4 f2 9c 0e > > .... > > 2003-07-09 12:46:39 [6] DEBUG: Octet string dump ends. > > 2003-07-09 12:46:39 [6] DEBUG: SMPP PDU dump ends. > > > > > > I had a look at the kannel source and I saw it converts from > > gsm-7 to latin > > by default if no alt_charset is set. > > I'm just getting rubbish with this though.. > > > > The message is 'Test' and is 7-bit packed: > > > > D4 1 1010100 = T > > F2 11 110010 = e > > 9C 100 11100 = s > > 0E 0000 1110 = t > > > > > > How do I convert it? > > > > Regards, > > > > David. > > > > > > > -- Benjamin Lee Melbourne, Australia "Always real." http://www.realthought.net/ __________________________________________________________________________ Feeling amorous, she looked under the sheets and cried, "Oh, no, it's Microsoft!"
