Hi,

Can i know how u encode ur text ABCDäöüÄÖÜß to become ISO-8859-1 encoded
ABCD%e4%f6%fc%c4%d6%dc%df ?


Markus R. wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem sending special characters in mobile terminated
> messages through Kannel.
> 
> The Setup: Debian (Sarge), Kannel 1.4.1 (from .deb packages), libxml
> 2.6.16-7
> 
> SMSC: Vodafone Germany, EMI
> 
> 
> The Problem: I want to send the following test message: ABCDäöüÄÖÜß
> 
> Each time I send this message I receive ABCDäößÄÖ§ñ on the mobile phone.
> 
> Here are my requests to kannel:
> 
> ISO-8859-1 encoded:
> http://SERVER:PORT/cgi-bin/sendsms?user=USER&password=PASS&to=RECIPIENT&text=ABCD%e4%f6%fc%c4%d6%dc%df&charset=ISO-8859-1&from=SHORTNUMBER
> 
> smsbox.log says:
> 2007-04-03 11:23:49 [762] [3] INFO: sendsms
> sender:<smsSender:SHORTNUMBER> (IPADDRESS) to:<RECIPIENT>
> msg:<ABCDäöüÄÖÜß>
> 
> This at least tells me that the characters are transmitted to kannel
> correctly but on the mobile I receive ABCDäößÄÖ§ñ
> 
> If I send the following UTF-8 encoded request:
> http://SERVER:PORT/cgi-bin/sendsms?user=USER&password=PASS&to=RECIPIENT&text=ABCD%c3%a4%c3%b6%c3%bc%c3%84%c3%96%c3%9c%c3%9f&charset=UTF-8&from=SHORTNUMBER
> 
> smsbox.log says:
> 2007-04-03 11:29:12 [762] [3] INFO: sendsms
> sender:<smsSender:SHORTNUMBER> (IPADDRESS) to:<RECIPIENT>
> msg:<ABCDäöüÃ<84>Ã<96>Ã<9C>Ã<9F>>
> 
> The Mobile still receives ABCDäößÄÖ§ñ
> 
> It is interesting that at least ö, ä, Ö and Ä pass through correctly.
> 
> How can I find out, why ü, Ü and ß get garbled?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Markus
> 
> 
> 

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