When receiving an SMS that used hebrew characters the file that is created in the INCOMING folder are UTF-8 format. This file is not readable and cannot be processed

My questions:
1. Can the file format be defined in a parameter within 'sms server tools'
2. under Linux, how this file can be converted to ascii to ISO files, so it can readable by gedit editor.

Thanks..

I assume that your message is pure Unicode. There are some options, but I have to know what version of smsd you are using? Also, what is the locale of your system?

It might be useful to see smsd.conf content too.

Hi,
I am using smstools3-3.1.3

The sms that is sent contain only digits. However, the SMS file that is created in the INCOMING folder is format is utf-8.

The question is if we can inforce the creation of a text file in the INCOMING folder.

What do you mean by local?
Also, which is the parameter in the smsd.conf that might help?

Thanks

I meant locale, like:
root@pro2:/usr/local/src/smstools3/src# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
etc...

There are two important settings:
decode_unicode_text which defaults to no and
incoming_utf8 which also defaults to no.

If received message is using Unicode, it's body is saved as it is. Messages with GSM alphabet are stored using ISO character set. Headers are always stored using ISO. If a system is using UTF-8 as a locale, like mine, incoming_utf8 should be set to yes.

If you have PDU string from the logfile available, show it to me, I can check what it actually contains. You can use Private tags to hide PDU from other board members.

Hi,

The following is my locale

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

How I can define that the header and SMS itself will be also in ISO.

Can you please tell me the exact command to that should modify this (in locale or maybee elsewhere)

Thanks.

You do not have the PDU string from logfile available?

Headers in message files are always ISO and it's the same as UTF-8 because headers are in english.

There is a header Alphabet: included in each message file. What value is it saying in the message which contains hebrew characters, and in the message which was sent containing only digits?

Hi,

The header:
Alphabet: UCS2

The PDU string is
AT+CMGF=0

If this is not the PDU string, please let me know how to extract.

Thanks.

Ok, you are receiving Unicode message and you need to change it to UTF-8, not ISO.

Set up an eventhandler, smsd.conf:
eventhandler = /usr/local/bin/smsd_eventhandler

and the file:

Hi,

Thank You for the fix.

I used another method to solve (via conversion program).

Thanks again...