(Visual FoxPro) Convert String to GSM 03.38

Demonstrates how to convert a string to the GSM character set. For more information about the GSM character set, see GSM Character Set

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.79 or greater. Support for the GSM character set was added in v9.5.0.79.

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LOCAL s
LOCAL loBdGsm
LOCAL lnSuccess

* Demonstrates how to convert a string to the GSM character set byte representation.

s = "support@chilkatsoft.com, {abc}"

* In the above string the a-z letters have the same 1-byte values in the GSM character set.
* The '@' character is the 0x00 byte in GSM.
* The curly brace chars are 2-bytes each in GSM -- each beginning with the 0x1B escape char.
* The '.', ' ', and ',' are the same in GSM as us-ascii.

* Let's convert to GSM.

* bdGsm will contain the GSM bytes.
* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.BinData')
loBdGsm = CreateObject('Chilkat.BinData')

* Append the string to bdGsm.  The 2nd arg "gsm" tells AppendString to
* convert the incoming string to the gsm byte representation.
lnSuccess = loBdGsm.AppendString(s,"gsm")

* Let's examine what we have in hex:
? loBdGsm.GetEncoded("hex")

* The result is:  737570706F7274006368696C6B6174736F66742E636F6D2C201B286162631B29

* Save the GSM bytes to a file.
lnSuccess = loBdGsm.WriteFile("qa_output/gsm.txt")

RELEASE loBdGsm