problem with clickatell arabic sms charset (PHP SMS API)

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    Hello,
    iam using CLICKATELL SMS API 1.6 to send messages. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sms-api/
    now everything work fine, but i got problem with the arabic text charset..... in the html form i use windows-1256 charset (arabic)... but i get the sms in the phone by iso-8859-1 charset !!!
    so if the text appear in the form like this "كلمة".... then it appear in the sms like "ßáãÉ" !!!
    please any help !!!
    thanks
     
    crazy.works, Aug 23, 2010 IP
  2. MyVodaFone

    MyVodaFone Well-Known Member

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    Is it not supposed to be charset=UTF-8 for mobiles

    Are you changing the typed text before its sent ?
     
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  3. crazy.works

    crazy.works Peon

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    i didn't change the text type before the sending... just i set the form page charset to windows-1256 and i send with the api class as it is.
    beside i tried once to change the text type with iconv, but no thing happened...
    so any help?
     
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    MyVodaFone Well-Known Member

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    That's the point I was trying make, the API is set to UTF-8 you should not change that, you can display whatever type on your webpage, but as far as I am aware mobiles operate under utf-8, maybe I am wrong, have you looked at the clickatell support site.
     
    MyVodaFone, Aug 23, 2010 IP