Re: Howto send Chinese SMS?

[BORBELY Zoltan]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 05:42:00PM +0800, Allan Dyer wrote:
> while" is a year and an OS re-installation). I'm now able to send and get SMS 
> messages in Chinese correctly, if I set an appropriate locale - using the 
> LC_ALL environment variable for gnokii (version 0.6.1) or setlocale in Perl.
> 
> However, "appropriate locale" is a fudge:
> I can set zh_TW.big5 and read Traditional Chinese messages from the phone in 
> the Big5 character set,
> or
> I can set zh_CN.gb2312 and read Simplified Chinese messages from the phone in 
> the GB2312 character set
> but if I set zh_TW.big5 and try to read a Simplified Chinese message, or vica-
> versa, I get nothing, or question marks. The fix is to choose a locale with 
> utf8 encoding, I don't have a Chinese local with utf8 encoding available, so 
> I 
> choose en_IN.utf8 (is that an Indian version of English?) and I can then read 
> both the Traditional and Simplified messages, encoded in utf8.

Try the latest version, 0.6.3 contains a lot of encoding related fixes.

Bye,
Bozo