SMS with language specific characters

[770801tvdhaar]

Hi,

We sending credentials for self registered guests via SMS. I'm I right in thinking that the SMS provider should supply the API syntax for encoding language specific characters like åäö or is this something that ISE should encode?

Regards

Tyrone

[hslai · Accepted solution]

The available options are in Tables 1 and 2 at Configure SMS Gateways to Send SMS Notifications to Guests.

UTF-8 characters usually sent fine. In the past, I've only seen some issues with multi-byte characters in certain SMS gateways.

[770801tvdhaar]

sorry for my ignorance but what is url-encode? In the $message$ guests are going to use characters like åäöÅÄÖ to create their accounts and ISE needs to url-encode these characters so then look decent in the sms.

How to do this properly? 

[hslai]

what is url-encode?

See HTML URL Encoding Reference

In the $message$ guests are going to use characters like åäöÅÄÖ to create their accounts and ISE needs to url-encode these characters so then look decent in the sms.

How to do this properly? 

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This can vary by SMS gateways so best to try it out yourself with the particular SMS provider you are planning to use.