multilingual SMS solution

Question

I am looking for multilingual SMS solution , Which allows me to send via API , I tried some commercial solutions , but still no luck , the problem is in sending multilingual text , I have to send SMS in Korean , Japanese , Hebrew , Thai , Chinese , Persian .

Is there any SMS solution which I can use it to send . SMS in above listed languages via API .

Just in case if you couldn't find any SMS solution , Please suggest a way to implement it using any open source platform which can allow me to send multilingual SMS .

Thanks in advance for responding to this post .

Answer 1

[Disclaimer: I do some developer evangelism for Nexmo.]

I'm not sure of other APIs, but I know Nexmo supports Unicode. From the docs:

Nexmo supports Unicode for multiple language support. Text length, however, is limited to 70 characters-exceeding 70 characters will have your message split into parts. Further, the mobile device must support the character encoding, for example, a US device may not display Arabic.

Answer 2

I don't believe there is any pre-built open source tool to do what you are asking. Howerver, you could build one without too much effort. I would use the Google translate API to precompile a given message into whatever sought languages. Then I would use an opensource SMS gateway tool like Kannel to transmit the messages.