How to Change the Character Encoding for SMPP How to Change the Character Encoding for SMPP

How to Change the Character Encoding for SMPP

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Objective

Changing the character encoding in SMPP.

Applies To

  • SMPP
  • Encoding

Procedure

  1. Log in to your Vonage API account dashboard.
  2. Expand your account name in the left panel.
  3. Select Settings.
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  4. On API Keys setting tab, you will see the SMPP Settings section. From here, you can select the default character-set encoding to be used.
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  5. Once you have selected the character-set to be used as the default for your account, select Save Changes.

Note: This is only applicable for SMPP. Vonage REST API uses WEB standard UTF-8. This setting only takes effect for SMSC default alphabet (DCS=0). Whenever the data_coding is not 0, it will be replaced with the coding schema specified in data_coding.