Thanks Giovanni for the tip. In Wiki it says
 
skypopen_chat supports full utf8 chat text through ESL or API; yet in Lua script I create freeswitc.API() and then executestring("skypopen_chat interface1 remote_skypeid some_unicode_messsage), the utf8 message was not received correctly.
 
Does the wiki "API" not referring to freeswitch.API in Lua?
 
> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:19:30 +0100
> From: gmaruzz@gmail.com
> To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] How to enable unicode in CLI command?
>
> from CLI you can't.
> You can use ESL, eg telnet to port 8021 (IIRC).
> Anyway, look in the wiki page of gsmopen and/or skypopen for an example howto.
> Via ESL unicode is supported.
> -giovanni
>
> On 11/18/12, ÍõÀí <itispip-qq@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I tried to use chat / skypopen_chat from CLI console to send a message to
> > receiver, the message is written by unicode charactor (Korean or Thai), the
> > receiver cannot get correct charators;
> > Tried to call chat / skypopen_chat API from LUA/JScript, ended the same;
> > I believe Freeswitch itself support unicode, as when I use an SIP client as
> > "Bria" to send SIP chat message between 2 clients, unicode charactor
> > displays correctly.
> > Is it just the CLI command by design not support unicode, or I have to do
> > something in config xml?
> >
>
>
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>
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