Operating system name and version: Debian 6.0.6
Version of smsd: 3.1.15
Smsd installed from: sources
Name and model of a modem : HUAWEI E1552
Interface: USB

I am having trouble recieving the special scandinavian caracters æøåÆØÅ correctly.
Whenever an sms is received, these caracters are replaced by "diamonds-caracters".
There are, however no trouble sending messages containing these letters.

If I, for instance sends the message:
"This is a danish character test: æøåÆØÅ"

i will receive an sms looking like this:

<top of message snipped> Alphabet: ISO Length: 39 This is a danish character test: ������

My config file is as below:



I have tried the following settings both in unison and independetly:
decode_unicode_text = yes cs_convert = yes

The first does not help, and the second appearently blocks the messages so they do not show up in the incomming folder.

It is worth noticing that I am running on a system that does not have Danish localization. This does, however usually not present problems as danish special caracters have been around since extended ASCII.

Any help would be greatly appriciated, thanks.

If any other people are experiencing similar problems, here is a workaround I am currently using:

It seemed that the danish characters was always decoded to the same (wrong) characters.
This was verified looking at several incoming messages with a hex editor.

As the characters are consistently decoded to the same char, the octal value of these characters can be used along with a streameditor.
The following command produces a correctly formatted file.

sed -e "s/\o346/æ/g" -e "s/\o370/ø/g" -e "s/\o345/å/g" -e "s/\o306/Æ/g" -e "s/\o330/Ø/g" -e "s/\o305/Å/g" errorFile.txt >decodedCorrectly.txt

I have set up a listener on the .../spool/incoming/ directory and move the files through a script to /spool/incommingOk/ from where i can pick them up.

....
While this work. it is not a solution though - just thought someone might benefit from this.
This workaround works on Debian 6.0.6

Those characters are in ISO alphabet, and probably your locale is UTF-8. Try a global setting incoming_utf8 = yes.

That fixed it. Thanks a lot - and sorry for (appearently) not having read the configuration section properly before asking.

...not quite sure how to mark question as solved... cannot edit title, no "solved button"