Hi,
I find it odd that you have seen no SMSC which required that option. I
personally tried transmitting "a¡b" as originator over 7 different
gateways with the patch on. 5 of them assumed GSM in both source_addr
and short_message, and the originator stayed "a¡b" (The actual
transmitted source_addr was "[EMAIL PROTECTED]").
One required iso-8859-1 in both source_addr and short_message and the
originator became "a¡b" (Transfered as "a¡b" as alt_charset=iso-8859-1).
The last one required iso-8859-1 in source_addr and GSM in short_message
and the resulting originator was "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
So yes, it ought to be configurable (although I hear complaints of too
many configuration options) since it clearly differ from SMSC to SMSC,
but I am really surprised that I magically have found all the gateways
which DID expect GSM charset.
I work in a Danish company, and so several of our customers are
Scandinavian and would like to have the letters Æ,Ø,Å in the
source_addr, and without the patch, these characters are replaced with
spaces or something random by the SMSC.
I took a closer look at the actual SMPP spec, and they stated that
C-octet-strings can only have ASCII characters, so if the protocol is
followed exactly as written, Scandinavia have lost :(
If I create a new patch where the option i selectable, would it then
have a better chance of entering the CVS, or shouldn't I bother at all?
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
Peter Christensen
Developer
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Alexander Malysh wrote:
Hi,
sorry for delay...
I'm -1 for the kannel.smpp.apha_gsm.patch in it form as is. The fact is
really simple. With the patch in it's form it's not possible to restore
default behavior (sender: latin1, msg: gsm) because it's depend on
alt_charset that also used for message body. And as I don't know any
SMSC that need this feature I would say: default behavior must stay.
Thanks,
Alex
Hillel wrote:
Dear Alex,
Please if the diffs from Peter are in the correct format will you
consider
installing into CVS the kannel.smpp.cp1252.diff and
kannel.smpp.alpha_gsm.diff.
I've been emailing Peter and he explained the two patches gives
support for
€ in both alphanumeric numbers as
well as the actual message body. Its also helps to send many other
characters.
This is very useful.
Please re-consider your +0 you gave the patch.
Thanks
