Android Question Starnge SMS behaviour

Erel

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• Jun 25, 2014

• #2

The limit of non-English messages is about 60 or 70 characters. Though SendLargeSms should handle it correctly.

Does it work if the msg includes text other than a link?

 

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• Jun 25, 2014

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long english msg + link works
long hebrew msg (no link) works with SendLargeSms
long hebrew msg + link does NOT work, even with SendLargeSms

I attach a sample project. Change the phone number in Sub btn_Click (about line #60)

 

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Erel

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• Jun 25, 2014

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You can try to encode the link with StringUtils.

 

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• Jun 26, 2014

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Tried:

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url="http://www.somewhereover.com/therainbow/figsfly.html"
Dim su As StringUtils
enc="UTF8"
urle = su.EncodeUrl(url, enc)

the hebrew+link was NOT sent
english + link was sent but the link was:
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.somewhereover.com%2Ftherainbow%2Ffigsfly.html

which came out even worse in SMS (not entirely as link)

same result when encoding with ISO-8859-8 and with windows-1255

 

Last edited: Jun 26, 2014

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• Jun 29, 2014

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So far the only solution is sending 2 sms msgs. 1st with the hebrew text, 2nd with the link. Not beautiful but unless this issue is solved - this will have to do for now

 

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• Jul 7, 2014

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Can any hebrew user test my sample project (asms) and verify this problem, hopefully suggesting a solution

 

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