Cellphone does not support GSM7?

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Mar 13, 2015 7:47 PM, João M. S. Silva <joao.m.santos.silva at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On 03/13/2015 05:31 PM, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
>>
>> When using --messaging-create-sms-with-data the encoding type is set
>> as being raw. If you're sending text you really need to use the
>> "text=whatever" option. Maybe you need to escape the EOLs before
>> setting them in ${text}? Truth be told, I never tested it with
>> multiple lines... :)
>
>
> Does not seem to work. Either with single-escaping:
>
>   Content    |              number: '---------'
>              |                text: '1st line\n2nd line'
>
> or double-escaping:
>
>   Content    |              number: '---------'
>              |                text: '1st line\\n2nd line'
>
> the SMS's are received as presented in the Content above, i.e. the \n are
not interpreted correctly, they are treated as 2 chars.
>
> With --messaging-create-sms-with-data the message is correctly presented
in a smartphone, so I guess raw mode works OK.
>
> I think the problem is that the non-smartphone is not capable of
understanding the SMS in raw (GSM 7-bit) mode.
>
> Thanks anyway. Any further hints? This must be possible since I receive
line wrapped SMS's in this older phone

Raw mode is not gsm7. Raw mode is 8bit mode. Text mode is either gsm7 or
ucs2.

I guess we can just un-escape the text in mmcli before sending it to MM,
shouldnt be a big deal.
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