Specifications

3GPP

3GPP TS 27.007 V6.3.0 (2003-

06)

Release 6

5.5 Select TE character set +CSCS

Table 6: +CSCS parameter command syntax

Command

Possible response(s)

+CSCS=[<chset>]

+CSCS?

+CSCS: <chset>

+CSCS=?

+CSCS: (list of supported <chset>s)

Description

Set command informs TA which character set <chset> is used by the TE. TA is then able to convert character strings

correctly between TE and MT character sets.

When TA-TE interface is set to 8-bit operation and used TE alphabet is 7-bit, the highest bit shall be set to zero.

NOTE 1: It is manufacturer specific how the internal alphabet of MT is converted to/from the TE alphabet.

Read command shows current setting and test command displays conversion schemes implemented in the TA.

Defined values

<chset> (conversion schemes not listed here can be defined by manufacturers):

"GSM" GSM 7 bit default alphabet (3GPP TS 23.038); this setting causes easily software flow control

(XON/XOFF) problems

"HEX" character strings consist only of hexadecimal numbers from 00 to FF; e.g. "032FE6" equals three 8-bit

characters with decimal values 3, 47 and 230; no conversions to the original MT character set shall be

done.

NOTE 2: If MT is using GSM 7 bit default alphabet, its characters shall be padded with 8th bit (zero) before

converting them to hexadecimal numbers (i.e. no SMS-style packing of 7-bit alphabet).

"IRA"

international reference alphabet (ITU-T T.50 [13])

"PCCPxxx" PC character set Code Page xxx

"PCDN" PC Danish/Norwegian character set

"UCS2" 16-bit universal multiple-octet coded character set (ISO/IEC10646 [32]); UCS2 character strings are

converted to hexadecimal numbers from 0000 to FFFF; e.g. "004100620063" equals three 16-bit

characters with decimal values 65, 98 and 99

"8859-n" ISO 8859 Latin n (1-6) character set

"8859-C" ISO 8859 Latin/Cyrillic character set

"8859-A" ISO 8859 Latin/Arabic character set

"8859-G" ISO 8859 Latin/Greek character set

"8859-H" ISO 8859 Latin/Hebrew character set

Implementation

Mandatory when a command using the setting of this command is implemented.