"At sign" replaced by "inverted question mark sign"

[eightyfive]

Hi,

The "at sign" of my contact email address is being replaced by an "inverted question mark sign" (escaped?).

Expected contact@propertysumo.com

Actual result contact¿propertysumo.com

The @ sign is part of the SMS default supported characters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_03.38#GSM_7-bit_default_alphabet_and_extension_table_of_3GPP_TS_23.038_.2F_GSM_03.38

So I don't believe it is being escaped.

Oddly enough, if I try to send the same SMS via Curl, the email address does not get escaped, I receive the SMS normally.

So I figured the problem must come from the Laravel/PHP package.

Any help appreciated. Cheers.

[mheap]

Hey there @eightyfive,

I've tried this with both nexmo/laravel and nexmo/client and can't seem to reproduce the error.

My initial impression is that it may not be a real @, but one of the unicode variants (65312 or 65131). To help debug, could you run the following in your web browser and let us know what value is returned?

javascript:alert('<email>'.charCodeAt(7));

[eightyfive]

Ok, my previous comment was dumb (hence I deleted it).

So it says 64 consistenly.

'@'.charCodeAt(0);

But I cannot figure out if this is as expected, cause I see 64 as the HTML entity (decimal) on this page: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0040/index.htm

Although the true unicode code of @ seems to be 40

[mheap]

That's what we're expecting, so it's unlikely to be a unicode issue.

The next question is which country are you trying to send an SMS to? Each operator works slightly differently

[eightyfive]

I am trying to send SMS to thaï phones (Thailand).

[mheap]

@eightyfive I raised this with our support team and they informed me that you have an open support ticket. Let's continue there :)