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Neil Stamps
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Username: Neil

Post Number: 33
Registered: 12-2009
Posted on Friday, January 22, 2010 - 05:36 pm:   

I am trying to test sending unicode SMS messages, what settings to I need to make within the gateway to support this?
Des - NowSMS Support
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Username: Desosms

Post Number: 1700
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Friday, January 22, 2010 - 10:16 pm:   

Hi Neil,

The quick answer ... None.

The longer answer, how exactly are you trying to submit these messages?

If you are using the web interface, the input form is automatically set for UTF-8 encoding, and it just works.

If you are using direct HTTP URL submission, the default character set that NowSMS expects to see is UTF-8. It is possible to use alternate character sets by including the "&charset=xxxx" parameter in the URL submission. For "xxxx" NowSMS supports any of the character sets supported by the Windows PC on which NowSMS is running. Typical "xxxx" settings are iso-8859-1 for Western Europe, iso-8859-6 for Arabic, big5 for Chinese.

I seem to remember that you're using SMPP. In that case, you use follow the SMPP standard, encoding text in UCS2 and set the data_coding value to 8.

If you need an example, send a message in from a phone to your server that includes Unicode characters so that you can see the format in which the message is delivered to your SMPP client.

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Des
NowSMS Support

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