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salman raza New member Username: Salman4raza Post Number: 4 Registered: 10-2006 |
Dear support/bryce, i have a question i have added a modem that has urdu support i have tried recieving and sending sms in urdu. and that is working fine when i tried to use nowsms, it sends sms in urdu fine. but when trying to recieve sms through 2-way, asp and mssql, it shows some unknown sms characterset, i have set iso-8859-6 characterset. but still my database shows some unknown characterset. can you help me straightly. waiting | |||
Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 2277 Registered: 08-2008 |
Hi, Well, the Urdu character set is not part of iso-8859-6, is it? iso-8859-6 is Arabic. However, Urdu is an extension of Arabic, so I assume Urdu would include Arabic characters, but Arabic does not necessarily include Urdu characters, as you have discovered. Your best solution would probably be to configure NowSMS to use UTF-8 as the 2-way character set, and modify your scripts to process UTF-8. Another possibility ... try setting the 2-way character set to Windows-1256. I believe this is the code page that Windows uses in Urdu environments. The Windows-1256 character set is documented here: http://www.unicodetools.com/unicode/codepages.php?codepage=windows-1256 Windows-1256 appears to be a superset of iso-8859-6. You can find the iso-8859-6 character set here: http://www.unicodetools.com/unicode/codepages.php?codepage=iso-8859-6 UTF-8 is technically the better choice, because it supports all languages, however if you are currently processing other Arabic languages correctly, this code page might help you with Urdu. -- Des NowSMS Support |