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| Ali Shahbour New member Username: Shahbour Post Number: 10 Registered: 10-2005 |
Hello i am trying to send the @ character using HTTP but i am unable it is cutting the message at the position of @, i tried it using SMPP and it is working, even i tried the directly from nowsms web interface adn it didn't work. how can i solve this | |||
| Ali Shahbour New member Username: Shahbour Post Number: 11 Registered: 10-2005 |
I tried to encode it with %40 but this didn't work out | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 6692 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi, Are you interfacing to an SMPP SMSC? Try going into "Properties" for the SMSC in NowSMS, and under "Advanced Settings", change "SMSC Character Set" to "iso-8859-1 (Latin)". My guess is that your SMSC is using this character set instead of the GSM character set. In the GSM character set, the "@" character is represented by NULL. In the iso-8859-1 NULL represents the end of a string of text ... so that is why the text would be getting truncated at the "@" character. -bn | |||
| ben stein New member Username: Hoist2k Post Number: 1 Registered: 11-2006 |
Were you even able to solve this problem? I am having the same issue using an external modem (Multitech GPRS) and posting via the HTTP interface (http://host:8800/?PhoneNumber=xxxxx&Text=this+is+a+test+from+me@domain). Everything I am sending is (presumably) UTF-8. I encoded my URL with %40 with no change. I also tried changing character sets in the .ini files and appending charset= to the end of the URL. No help. Tried with 2006 & 5.51. Any other suggestions? | |||
| Ali Shahbour New member Username: Shahbour Post Number: 15 Registered: 10-2005 |
As Bryce said i changed the GSM character and it worked out | |||
| ben stein New member Username: Hoist2k Post Number: 2 Registered: 11-2006 |
Hmmm... I'm connecting with a GSM Modem directly and not SMPP, so I don't have any such option for changing character sets. Bryce - any ideas? | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 6886 Registered: 10-2002 |
Ben, There is no general problem with sending the "@" symbol using a GSM modem. This character causes problems in some SMPP configurations, because different service providers are expecting different character sets to be used. What happens? Is the "@" character replaced with another character, or is the message truncated? Are you in the US? Are you sending cross operator (modem SIM from one operator, sending to phone on another operator)? I have seen reports of problems sending the "@" character across some of the interoperator connections in the US ... but I do not recall specifics. -bn | |||
