Unable to send SMS with Chinese character using API
Issue
Unable to send SMS with chinese character using API
Symptoms
Gets the result return -36 and those sent out SMS messages were fail to receive.
Cause
The setting was incorrect.
Workaround
The settings that you need to set when you post to our gateway
“content_type” = 2
“msg” = converted to Hexadecimal format
Additional Information
If you message contains mixture of English and Chinese character, you would need to send it as Chinese message
Here is some example of conversion : a converted to hexadecimal is 0061, 人 converted to hexadecimal is 4EBA
For sample code in VB.NET, kindly download it here – http://www.trio-mobile.com/document/samplecodehex.zip