What are "%00" attached after ß ?

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Nambu
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Username: Nambu

Post Number: 7
Registered: 08-2004
Posted on Tuesday, November 09, 2004 - 03:09 am:   

Hello,
Sorry, my English is weak.

I worry about the problem which garbage attaches to a message end.
The problem is reproduced on condition that the following.
- HTTP Connection
- using "Send Text SMS Message" of Web Interface
- the character to transmit is the Latin alphabet (it mainly generates in ß, but it occurs also in the other character).

The generated problem is as follows.
(1) %00 follow %C3%9F (%C3%9F is UTF-8 encoded ß).
(2) The garbage data follows the data (1). This garbage data considered to be a part of message which transmitted in the past.

I am making this problem reproduce by 100% of probability by the following methods.
1. The attached contents of SampleSMS.rtf are transmitted as SMS.
2. 0xC39F (Unicode U+00 DF:Latin Small Letter Shap S) of UTF-8 are transmitted as SMS.

Furthermore, the log at the time of transmission (SMSDEBUG.LOG) is appended.

text/richtext
SampleSMS.rtf (0.6 k)
application/octet-stream
SMSDEBUG.LOG (2.8 k)
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Board Administrator
Username: Bryce

Post Number: 3744
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 09:37 pm:   

Hi Nambu,

I have not been able to recreate the problem that you describe.

However, I've done some more investigation, and I believe that we may have some character handling code when running on a far east version of Windows (Japanese version, and probably Chinese versions as well).

Please send an e-mail to nowsms@now.co.uk with "Attention Bryce" in the subject line of your message. And reference this problem in the message text.

I will reply back with an update that I think will fix this problem, if I have correctly identified the problem.

-bn
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Board Administrator
Username: Bryce

Post Number: 3746
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - 04:23 pm:   

Follow-up. This issue has been resolved with an update.

As suspected, it is a problem with the HTTP SMSC interface in NowSMS when running on a Japanese (and possibly Chinese) version of Windows.

An official patch will be released at a later date and incorporated into NowSMS releases after v5.51.

-bn