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salman raza
New member
Username: Salman4raza

Post Number: 4
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Friday, June 25, 2010 - 03:08 pm:   

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
Posted on Friday, June 25, 2010 - 06:07 pm:   

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.

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Des
NowSMS Support