Re: Gammu api: encoding unicode sms on Linux (UTF-8)

[Michal <mi...@ci...>]

Hi

Dne Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:15:04 +0100
"Tobias Andersson" <tan...@gm...> napsal(a):

> I do not understand how to use the EncodeUnicode function in the gammu
> API to encode unicode messages (containing swedish letters to be
> exact).
> I am using the sms-send.c example distributed with gammu as a template
> and then adding new code to it.
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> Basically I am trying to read a message (a single line of bytes) from
> a text-file created locally, put the line it into a char-array
> (c-string) and then set the _Text_ member of _GSM_SMSMessage_ to the
> message using the EncodeUnicode function like this:
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>    GSM_SMSMessage sms;
>    char string_from_textfile[500] =3D "";
>    ...
>    fgets(string_from_textfile, 500, fp);
>    ...
>    EncodeUnicode(sms.Text, string_from_textfile, strlen(string_from_textf=
ile));

If you are using code based on example in sources, you should also
change sms.Coding to allow Unicode message.

> The docs about EncodeUnicode says: "encodes string from local charset
> to unicode" so sms.Text should now (if I understand this correctly)
> contain a unicode representation of the string read from the textfile.
> I am running Linux. My locale is sv_SE.UTF-8 with charmap UTF-8;
> gammucoding is set to "utf8" in gammurc.

For properly working EncodeUnicode you should also initialize locales
in your program (just call GSM_InitLocales(NULL) ).

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