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Asaf
Unregistered guest
Posted on Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 06:30 pm:   

Hi,

My gateway provider is using nowsms SMPP server.

I have a problem with the send of this message.
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Yossi BIG, DanKo & Slider Invite U Tonight @ 22:00 to the opening of the Winter Line @ Special Club (Alenbi 132) with Astrix, Sub6 & Sissko! 4lists: 052-8241090

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If I delete the "@" and "&" characters the SMS arrive ok, if not then I am getting it in gibberish.
When we looked on the log we found that the SMSC is display the SMS like it is a Unicode SMS, but it is not.
I have used www.devshock.com & www.ipworks.com with .NET & Delphi.
The SMS is exactly 160 English.

Thanks for any help
Asaf
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Board Administrator
Username: Bryce

Post Number: 3665
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 06:55 pm:   

I'd have to see your raw SMPP submission (debug log or raw trace) in order to understand.

The "@" character is sometimes a problem because in the GSM character set, it is a NULL character.

NowSMS expects SMPP clients to use the GSM character set when submitting a message via SMPP. (v5.51 supports the data_coding parameter which allows you to specify that you are using iso-8859-1 as the character set rather than the GSM character set.)

I'd suggest the provider should upgraded to v5.51, and that they should contact us for support.
Asaf
Unregistered guest
Posted on Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 07:22 pm:   

Thanks for your support Bryce.
When sending SMS to NowSMS, does the NowSMS is connected to a mobile operator SMSC or NowSMS is wokring only with mobile phones connected to it?

Asaf
Asaf
Unregistered guest
Posted on Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 07:49 pm:   

I forgot to tell you that sending this SMS from NowSMS web interface arrive perfectly ok.

Asaf
Asaf
New member
Username: Asafgo

Post Number: 1
Registered: 10-2004
Posted on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 - 10:32 am:   

Hi Bryce,

Can you please send this SMS to your mobile to see if it comes ok.

Yossi BIG, DanKo & Slider Invite U Tonight @ 22:00 to the opening of the Winter Line @ Special Club (Alenbi 132) with Astrix, Sub6 & Sissko! 4lists: 052-8241090

My provider is saying that there is no problem with other clients sending to his SMPP server so I would like to know if this SMS is working on other system.
The weird thing is when I make HTTP GET to the Web SMS interface of NowSMS the SMS arrive ok.

Thanks in advanced,
Asaf