Hello!

We use a third-party sms gateway to send out sms from our server. To send non usual characters (Russian for example) they need to have what they say "unicode utf-16" data.

We display a form for our users on our website, in an utf-8 encoded html page. The user submits his $message (so in Russian or German fore example), our perl script registers the data etc, and finally sends the sms.

The sms gateway requests to have data like for example "0442043504410442" for the russian word "тест". We tried a few conversions with the perl script and could never get this string 0442043504410442 for this word.

For example:

use Text::Iconv; # the iconv command perl library
my $converter = Text::Iconv->new("UTF8", "UTF16");
my $converted = $converter->convert($message);


$converted is not the expected string. I guess that the result is a decimal form of utf16 or something like this, but how to get it in Perl?

I add that the string is not to be displayed, but just sent to the gateway.

Thank you!

In reply to UTF8 to UTF16, but... by natol44

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