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Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 778 Registered: 08-2008 |
From an e-mail tech support inquiry ...
By default, NowSMS uses the GSM character set for sending out text messages via SMPP. In the GSM character set, the "@" character is encoded as a null character. Some SMSCs expect the standard US/Western European ASCII character set to be used instead. NowSMS can be configured to use this character set via a configuration setting. To configure the use of the ASCII character set, go into "Advanced Settings" for the SMPP connection in NowSMS, and change the "SMSC Character Set" to "iso-8859-1". (Go to the "SMSC" list, highlight the SMPP connection and press "Properties", then select "Advanced Settings".) -- Des NowSMS Support | |||
Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 793 Registered: 08-2008 |
And the query continues ... the action above that should have resolved the problem, created a new problem:
This is truly bizarre. The type of message that is described here (appears on screen but does not appear in the inbox) is a "flash" message. For some reason, this particular SMSC is now treating each message as if the "Class 0" attribute is set. There is no logical reason for this. One can only conclude that the SMSC is confused about the configuration setting that specifies the character set. There is one other setting, a hidden setting, that tells NowSMS to use ASCII/iso-8859-1 as the character set for encoding the message text ... however not explicitly setting the character set flag to indicate the character set encoding. This setting will probably work for this SMPP connection. To apply this setting, it is necessary to manually edit SMSGW.INI. Under the [SMPP - host:port] section header, locate the following statement: SMSCCharset=iso-8859-1 Underneath that statement, add the following line: SMSCCharsetDefault=Yes Restart the NowSMS SMS service for this setting to take effect. I expect this will resolve both issues. -- Des NowSMS Support |