Hi,
Do you know your provider’s default encoding (when dcs=0 or 241)?
Alt-charset insteucts kannel to send payload to smsc encoded as utf-8.
I’ve seen lately smscs supporting this but then it’s also a question of
transcoding on the smsc side. Remember, on the handset you have only two
options, gsm 7-bit which gives you up to 160 chars per sms and ucs-2 which
gives you up to 70.
Go back to basics. Detect the default smsc alphabet. Comment the alt-charset
line, send the @ sign (leave charset and coding empty) and check if you get @
or inverted exclamation sign ¡
If first, you have gsm default smsc alphabet, if ¡, you have to set alt-charset
to Latin-1 or something.
Alt-dcs=1 is used when the default smsc alphabet is not set to gsm 7-bit. If
you set alt-dcs=1, don’t set alt-charset and you know the set of characters you
can expect on the handset. Remember, tou always address to smsbox in utf-8, and
if you have characters beyond gsm 7-bit you must flag coding=2
BR,
Davor
> On Jul 18, 2020, at 04:48, Eichi <grimoire.of.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi There,
>
> The test was sent with alt-charset=utf-8 in the configuration and with
> coding=0 and alt-dcs=1 in the smspush cgi. With alt-dcs=0 the message
> reveiced on phone is B¤B!CèCΠC_CÆB'B?C¤C6C1C< but by using alt-dcs=1 it
> becomes $@[\\]^_`{|}~ instead.
>
> While it will work when encoded using ucs2, it will reduce the character
> count. Could it be that the provider is modifying it as sending
> @£$¥èéùìòÇØøÅåΔΦΓΛΩΠΨΣΘΞ€ÆæßÉ with the alt-dcs=1 settings works.
>
>
> Best Regards.
>
>
>> On 7/17/2020 4:45 PM, Davor Spasoski wrote:
>> 1. Some of your characters are supported in the default GS 7-bit alphabet:
>> https://www.developershome.com/sms/gsmAlphabet.asp
>> 2. All of the characters are supported if you use UCS-2 encoding.
>>
>> - These are the only two universally supported alphabets on handsets.
>> - You encode your request towards kannel (smsbox) using UTF-8 encoding. For
>> 1 nothing to set, for 2, you need to set coding=2 and charset=utf-8
>>
>> For 1, some of your characters will be transcoded to ?
>>
>> Bottom line, check your encoding towards kannel.
>>
>> Davor Spasoski
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: users <users-boun...@kannel.org> On Behalf Of Eichi
>> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 4:23 AM
>> To: users <users@kannel.org>
>> Subject: GSM Characters
>>
>> Hi Kannel Users,
>>
>> Please advise if these characters (¤¡ÄÖÑܧ¿äöñü) are supported in Kannel?
>> Every time I send it, these characters is converted to $@[\\]^_`{|}~ instead.
>>
>>
>> 1829895:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: SMPP[smppConnection2]:
>> Sending PDU:
>> 1829896:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: SMPP PDU 0x7f6c04003ea0 dump:
>> 1829897:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: type_name: submit_sm
>> 1829898:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: command_id: 4 = 0x00000004
>> 1829899:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: command_status: 0 =
>> 0x00000000
>> 1829900:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: sequence_number: 20013 =
>> 0x00004e2d
>> 1829901:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: service_type: NULL
>> 1829902:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: source_addr_ton: 0 =
>> 0x00000000
>> 1829903:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: source_addr_npi: 1 =
>> 0x00000001
>> 1829904:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: source_addr: "xxxxx"
>> 1829905:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: dest_addr_ton: 1 =
>> 0x00000001
>> 1829906:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: dest_addr_npi: 1 =
>> 0x00000001
>> 1829907:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: destination_addr: "xxxxxx"
>> 1829908:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: esm_class: 3 = 0x00000003
>> 1829909:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: protocol_id: 0 = 0x00000000
>> 1829910:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: priority_flag: 0 =
>> 0x00000000
>> 1829911:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: schedule_delivery_time: NULL
>> 1829912:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: validity_period: NULL
>> 1829913:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: registered_delivery: 0 =
>> 0x00000000
>> 1829914:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: replace_if_present_flag: 0 =
>> 0x00000000
>> 1829915:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: data_coding: 241 =
>> 0x000000f1
>> 1829916:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: sm_default_msg_id: 0 =
>> 0x00000000
>> 1829917:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: sm_length: 12 = 0x0000000c
>> 1829918:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: short_message:
>> "$@[\\]^_`{|}~"
>> 1829919:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: SMPP PDU dump ends.
>> 1829920:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: SMPP[smppConnection2]:
>> throughput (1.00,15.00)
>> 1829921:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: SMPP[smppConnection2]:
>> throughput (1.00,15.00)
>> 1829922:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: SMPP[smppConnection2]: Got
>> PDU:
>> 1829923:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: SMPP PDU 0x7f6c04003ea0 dump:
>> 1829924:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: type_name: submit_sm_resp
>> 1829925:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: command_id: 2147483652 =
>> 0x80000004
>> 1829926:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: command_status: 0 =
>> 0x00000000
>> 1829927:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: sequence_number: 20013 =
>> 0x00004e2d
>> 1829928:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: message_id: "0000318BF1"
>> 1829929:2020-07-17 09:56:19 [4432] [7] DEBUG: SMPP PDU dump ends.
>>
>> Best Regards.
>>
>>
>>
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пораката, не треба да ја копирате, дистрибуирате или да ја откривате нејзината
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