Re: Modemmanager - how to send sms? - receiving is ok

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander lanedo com>]

Hey hey,

> 
> I followed you advice, I downloaded the MM_05 branch and compiled in my system. I did not changed (means: compiled) other things on the system, so, the rest is in the same version I wrote above.
> After the installation, I fixed a path problem (previously I compiled it with prefix: /usr/local instead of /usr) and the system started well, seems it is working with nmcli tool.
> 
> My test result with receiving sms from modem (there are two sms messages: indexes are: 0 and 1), now I got this garbage:
> 
> ebox@antiX1 :~/tmp/modemmanager/ModemManager/test$ ./sms-get.py /org/freedesktop/ModemManager/Modems/2 0
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 0: From: 002B00330036003200300034003400380039003500380031 Time: 12/01/29,23:24:21+04 SMSC: 
>  004600720061006E0063006F0073002000670073006D
> 
> ebox@antiX1 :~/tmp/modemmanager/ModemManager/test$ ./sms-get.py /org/freedesktop/ModemManager/Modems/2 1
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 0: From: 002B00330036003200300034003400380039003500380031 Time: 12/01/29,23:24:21+04 SMSC: 
>  004600720061006E0063006F0073002000670073006D

That is not really garbage :-) That's the hexadecimal representation of
the UCS-2 encoded string. When reading the SMS in text mode, we need to
convert from current charset (UCS-2 in your case) to UTF-8.

Will prepare a patch and push it.

-- 
Aleksander