Interpretation differences between ASCII and GSM 7-bit

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Anonymous
 
Posted on Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 10:26 am:   

I have a problem with incoming messages to the NowSMS Gateway, the incoming messages are in GSM 7-bit format and I am using a script to save these messages into a text file. When I read this file out I am reading ASCII characters from notepad. Is there any way I can actually save the data in some other format or be able to keep the data in the 7 bit mode? Can the SMS Gateway give me the message as a string of 0's and 1's representing the whole message and then I can pick the chunks out myself and find out what character comes in!?!
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Board Administrator
Username: Bryce

Post Number: 2138
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 06:19 pm:   

No.

NowSMS will automatically decode the text of messages in GSM 7-bit format, and translate them to text before delivering them to your application.

If you believe that there is some data that is not being decoded correctly, it is possible to enable the debug log in NowSMS, and you can see the actual received message data in that debug log. To enable the debug log, manually edit SMSGW.INI, and under the [SMSGW] section header, add Debug=Yes. Then restart the NowSMS gateway service.

-bn