| Nowsms SMPP server and Kannel |  Search
|
|
NowSMS Support Forums ⬆ NowSMS Support - SMS Issues ⬆ Archive through June 02, 2006 ⬆ |
◄ ► |
| Author | Message | |||
| Ihab Abdulhalim New member Username: Ihhabtawfig Post Number: 1 Registered: 05-2006 |
Hi ,, We are using nowsms as smpp server linked to operator via multible GSM Modems , the problem is with arabic text , it seems that nowsms furthere encode the text after we send it as ISO-8859-6 , so the resulting msg in the handset is garbag ,how can we control that ? thanx | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 5889 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi, If you are submitting to NowSMS via SMPP, then you can only submit Arabic text in Unicode format. You cannot use ISO-8859-6 when submitting via SMPP. We only support ISO-8859-1, IA5 (GSM) or Unicode in the SMPP interface. In the SMPP specification, I am not aware of any setting that would allow you to specify ISO-8859-6 as the input character set. (If there was, we would support it.) So, it's more of a limitation of the protocol definition ... and you have to use Unicode. If you are submitting via HTTP, you can use ISO-8859-6 ... you just need to include "&charset=iso-8859-6" in the URL specification to indicate the character set that you are using. -bn | |||
| Ihab Abdulhalim New member Username: Ihhabtawfig Post Number: 2 Registered: 05-2006 |
Thanx Bryce I will Appreciate it very much if anyone can point out a method for unicoding Arabic text within our PHP script , or anywhere else . Regards | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 5900 Registered: 10-2002 |
Does your PHP script talk SMPP? Why not have it submit to NowSMS using an HTTP request instead? If you include "&charset=iso-8859-6" in the URL request, then that will tell NowSMS that the text is Arabic, so you don't have to worry about the conversion. There is a simple PHP script in the following thread which makes an HTTP request to NowSMS to send an SMS. http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/1/867.html ... just append "&charset=iso-8859-6" in the request. I'm not enough of a PHP expert to know how to accomplish the translation directly in PHP. I know there is a PHP function to convert from iso-8859-1 to utf-8, but I don't know of one to handle other conversions. -bn | |||
| Hoby New member Username: Ihhabtawfig Post Number: 3 Registered: 05-2006 |
<qoute>qoute> yep , it doese , now you helped me solve the problem by implementig the proper encoding . Thanx -bn  | |||
