Android Question Starnge SMS behaviour

[boten]

I'm trying to send sms msgs that contain Hebrew text and a link.
When the link is long and contains directory name the msg just won't be sent (even when using SendLargeSms,tho the msg is shorter than 160 chars.)

my sms text look something like:

<some hebrew text> http://somesitename.com/somedirectory/somefilename.html

Any Hebrew users encountered this kind of behaviour?

 

[Erel]

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?

 

[boten]

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)

 

[Erel]

You can try to encode the link with StringUtils.

 

[boten]

Tried:

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

 

[boten]

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

 

[boten]

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