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NowSMS Support Forums ⬆ NowSMS Support - SMS Issues ⬆ Archive through September 15, 2003 ⬆ |
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| Anonymous |
Hi! In certain regions SMSC forward SMS to GW as UTF16. This is problem for applications that are expecting UTF8. Do you have any support for autoconvert or are you planning such thing? Antti | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support |
Hi Antti, When SMS messages contain characters that are outside of the GSM character set defined in ETSI GSM 03.38 (this character set basically includes English characters, some accented characters, symbols and Greek characters) ... then the message has to be encoded in 16-bit Unicode (UTF-16). We handle this automatically. Applications using an HTTP interface to connect to NowSMS use UTF-8 ... but if the characters represented in the message need to be converted to/from UTF-16, we do that. -bn | |||
