- Product Manual
- Introduction
- Installation Guide
- Prerequisites
- SMS technology
- Download Information
- Installation Steps
- GSM Modem Setup
- Mobile Network Connections
- Users and applications
- Standard user
- SMPP user
- SMS from or to database
- MSSQL
- SQL Express
- Connection problem
- Create user
- SQL Server 2005 remote connection
- MSSQL Server 2008 Connection
- MSSQL Server 2012/2014 Connection
- International characters
- MySQL
- Oracle
- Sybase SQL Anywhere
- PostgreSQL
- Pervasive SQL
- Date Format Strings
- Scheduled SMS
- SQL templates
- Informix
- Access
- Video
- Connection string builder
- Keywords
- MS SQL high speed
- Oracle High Speed
- SQL statements
- Polling technology
- Dynamic Keywords
- Dynamic SMPP parameters
- Autoreply SMS from database
- Autoreply SMS using a script
- Simple autoreply SMS
- SMS from or to file
- SMS through E-mail
- SMS via HTTP Request
- SMS via colour protocol
- Application starter SMS
- SMS Voting
- SMS from MS Outlook
- SMS from/to FTP server
- PDF Request in SMS
- SMS to WCF service
- SMS Forwarder
- RSS to SMS
- Linux
- User Guide
- Developers Guide
- Examples and Solutions
- Appendix
- SMS FAQ
- Feature list
- Commercial Information
- Search
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C# SMS API
Developers can use our C# SMS API to send SMS from C#.Net. The C# SMS API comes with full source code
PHP SMS API
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SMPP SMS Gateway
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International/Unicode characters with MSSQL
This page explains in details how you can send international characters with Ozeki NG SMS Gateway in MSSQL. You will find how to configure an existing database to be able to send international characters and how to create a new database that supports Unicode characters.
Create new MSSQL database table
If you use MSSQL and you create a new database table, you need to use nvarchar instead of varchar in the fields where you want to use Unicode characters.
How to configure an existing MSSQL database to send international characters
If you already have created MSSQL database tables and you want this database table to support sending UNICODE characters via SMS, follow this configuration guide. You need to configure your MSSQL database to accept international characters such as Arabic, Chinese, etc.
Configuration guide
Start MSSQL Server Management Studio. Click on the database to be configured and select Properties (Figure 1).
Then click on Options in the menu. In Collation section you can select the types of characters you want the database to accept. In this example I selected Arabic CI AI (Figure 2).
Now in Tables section right click on ozekimessagein table and select Modify (Figure 3).
Set msg field to nvarchar (Figure 4).
Increase the size of messages from (50) to (160) and Save settings (Figure 5).
Now do the same process with ozekimessageout table. So you need to right click on ozekimessageout table, select Modify, set msg field to nvarchar, increase size to (160) and save the changes.
Test
I created a test message containing Unicode characters (Arabic has been selected) and inserted it into ozekimessageout table (Figure 6).
On Figure 7 you can see that Ozeki NG SMS Gateway sent out the test message (Figure 7)
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