What weird encoding is movistar Venezuela sms on blackberry using?

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Published on 2010-05-19T06:27:42Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 6:30 UTC
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Send an sms using the normal GSM TextMessage API on the BlackBerry, get back garbage. It's not unicode, phone is set to 7-bit send. Byte size is only off by one. Is there some default crypto thing, or some weird encoding they use? This code works most everywhere else in the world; this definitely seems like a movistar problem. The string that comes back is random 7-bit ascii except for a few high order bytes.

Needless to say the source input text is totally 7 bit chars, which should work in sms, ISO-8859 and look the same in UTF charsets.

Anybody seen this or got sms working in code on movistar VZ blackberries?

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