ModemManager 1.14.0: Can't send sms with some chars

[Aleksander Morgado]

Hey

>
> I created a ticket with our IT team and our email communications appear to be working now.
>
> I understand the command from the Digi router shell: "modem sms-text 16511234567 world范例" runs the following commands:
>
> # # mmcli -m 0 \
>  # > --messaging-create-sms="text='hello world范例',number='+16511234567'"
> # # mmcli -s 6 --send
>
> My test results, when running the above commands from the shell, shows the "/bin/sh: can't create --messaging-create-sms=text='hello world范例',number='+16511234567': Read-only file system" probably because I do not have the correct permissions when running from the shell. I will ask our Engineering team how to find if this filesystem error is seen when executing "--messaging-create-sms..." after the router shell command: "modem sms-text...".
>
> Please will you confirm the  "mmcli -s 6 --send" command should not result in the following error when "text" includes Chinese characters?
>
> # error: couldn't send the SMS: 'GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.Error
> .Core.InvalidArgs: Cannot prepare SMS to be sent: Cannot generate PDUs: Error pr
> ocessing input text'
>
> Your original response indicates that we should not see the "...Cannot generate PDUs..." error, but I want to be sure as my Team is requesting Engineering to provide OS builds addressing: "proper UTF-8 locale
> either in the environment or in the filesystem".
>

There should not be any error when creating a SMS with Chinese or any
other language as long as you're using UTF-8 when running the mmcli
operation and ALSO when using UTF-8 in the environment the
ModemManager daemon receives on launch.

-- 
Aleksander
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