Smart Serial receiving UTF-8 encoded messages

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Hi,

A driver is using a Smart Serial connection to act as a server.

Some of the received messages will display incorrectly some UTF characters.

Example message: “CreatePathRequest Athletes Unlimited Volleyball – (480) 491-0389”

Displayed message: “CreatePathRequest Athletes Unlimited Volleyball – (480) 491-0389”

The parameter used to receive the message uses RawType other which allows ASCII characters.

Would there be a way to process this kind of message?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Julio Riambau [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 22nd September 2022

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Hi Julio,

Does your protocol have the unicode option in the Protocol/Type@options attribute?
If not, adding that will probably be your solution.
However, note that adding it will be a breaking change so you’ll have to create a new driver range.
Also, refer to the documentation as you will probably then also need to use the Command@ascii attribute if you do send commands.

Unicode option: options attribute | DataMiner Docs
ascii option: ascii attribute | DataMiner Docs

Julio Riambau [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 22nd September 2022