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Spanish National Language Support

Spanish plug-in converters support the Spanish SMS encoding using the National Language Encoding.

This section describes the Spanish plug-in converter supported by the Symbian Platform and the alphabets supported by the converter.

Introduction

The Symbian platform provides Default GSM 7 bit & Spanish Single Shift Converter to support Spanish SMS encoding.

It is identified by KCharacterSetIdentifierSpanishSingleSms7Bit UID, defined in the charconv.h file.

Note: Any undefined Unicode character is converted to the GSM replacement character (?)0x3F and an code outside GSM 0x00~0x7F is converted to the Unicode replacement character 0xFFFD.

Alphabet

The comparison tables listed below are constructed using the Standard SMS Converter as the baseline to provide a better understanding of the character set supported by the Spanish converter. The comparison tables help in identifying the character set supported by the Spanish converter in comparison with the standard SMS converter.

Table 1A Default GSM 7bit & Spanish Single Shift Converter vs. Standard SMS Converter – Unicode to GSM Code

Table 1B Default GSM 7bit & Spanish Single Shift Converter vs. Standard SMS Converter – GSM Code to Unicode

Default GSM 7bit & Spanish Single Shift Converter vs. Standard Converter– Unicode to GSM Code

Table 1A

Default GSM 7bit & Spanish Single Shift converter			Standard SMS Converter
Unicode	GSM	Character	Unicode	GSM	Character
0x00C1	0x1B41	A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
0x00CD	0x1B49	A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
0x00D3	0x1B4F	A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
0x00DA	0x1B55	A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
0x00E1	0x1B61	A LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
0x00E7	0x1B09	a LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
0x00ED	0x1B69	A LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
0x00F3	0x1B6F	A LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
0x00FA	0x1B75	A LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE

Default GSM 7bit & Spanish Single Shift Converter vs. Standard Converter– GSM Code to Unicode

Table 1B

Default GSM 7bit & Spanish Single Shift converter			Standard SMS Converter
GSM	Unicode	Character	GSM	Unicode	Character
0x1B0D	0x000D	CARRIAGE RETURN
0x1B41	0x00C1	A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
0x1B49	0x00CD	A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
0x1B4F	0x00D3	Ó LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
0x1B55	0x00DA	Ú LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
0x1B61	0x00E1	á LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
0x1B09	0x00E7	ç LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
0x1B69	0x00ED	í LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
0x1B6F	0x00F3	ó LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
0x1B75	0x00FA	ú LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE

Spanish National Language Support

Introduction

Alphabet

See also