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| Tommy H Unregistered guest |
Hi. I am using the 2 way sms. I have made a java program that is processing the messages in the SMS-IN folder . I have problems with the sms file messages that are created, they do not seem to have the correct character set. How can i change that? The characters æ ø å become æ ø Ã¥ Thanks | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 3295 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Tommy, Those characters that you reference are in UTF-8 format. So you would need to convert them from UTF-8 to the character set that you are using in your application. Do note that if you are processing files in the SMS-IN directory directly, another issue that you may run into is that if a message is received in Unicode format, the SMS-IN file will contain a DCS=8, and a hex encoding of the Unicode message text. NowSMS doesn't convert the Unicode message into text format until it actually runs a 2-way command. You might be better off configuring a 2-way command instead of scanning these files directly. In addition to handling the Unicode messages better, there is also a configuration setting that can tell NowSMS to pass the received message text to a 2-way command using a character set other than UTF-8. If you edit SMSGW.INI, and under the [SMSGW] header, add ReceiveSMSCharset=iso-8859-1 ... then NowSMS will pass the received message to your application with the text encoded in the standard Windows character set for Western Europe instead of UTF-8. (However, this setting will have no effect on the raw files that are written to the SMS-IN directory.) -bn | |||
| Tommy H Unregistered guest |
Thanks for your reply - I changed my app to be a webapp and used the 2 way command - works great - Thanks a lot  | |||
