[Openbts-discuss] Unsupported DCS 0x8 when sending SMS

[Phil K. <phi...@ru...>]

Dear list,

I have to deal with a device that can be configured to forward messages
from a certain number to another device, e.g., to automatically forward
provider messages to my phone.
I tried to get this working but somehow, forwarded messages always
seemed to have a message length of 0.

Log output shows "SMSMessages.cpp:615:decode: unsupported DCS 0x8"
Apparently, the device uses an encoding that OpenBTS does not
understand (UCS2, which basically is just UTF-16).
Is there a way to foward it to my phone without interpreting it in
between? From a quick internet search I found that OpenBTS used to
send DCS 0x8 messages correctly (see for example the video on
http://blog.fortinet.com/post/openbts-for-mobile-malware-analysis ).
Has support for DCS 0x8 been removed in the meantime? Would it be hard
to bring it back?

Thanks in advance,
-Phil