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For those of us who live in an English speaking country
it is very easy to make incorrect assumptions when
sending messages in an International environment. Connection
Software operates in an International environment and
as a result your message may well be affected in unexpected
ways - for example if you "cut and paste" from
a Word document.
There are three relevant character sets: ASCII, GSM
03.38 and Unicode.
ASCII - the American Standard Code
for Information Interchange works fine for Americans
:)
GSM 03.38 extends the ASCII set
to include characters from many European languages
- character like Σ, ñ and ö.
All GSM phones can display the full GSM 03.38 character
set.
Unicode enables the characters in
every written language to be used and phones in China,
Japan and Korea all rely on unicode to display their
characters.
Connection software fully supports Unicode messages
so if you send us a message that contains a character
that is not in the GSM set we will automatically forward
the message in Unicode format. The only problem is
that Unicode messages sent to a GSM phone can only
contain 70 Unicode characters whereas a message only
containing GSM characters can contain up to 160 characters.
Word has a habit of changing quotation marks like
this " into "smart quotes" which look
like this: “smart quotes” and those new
quotation marks only occur in the Unicode character
set. So if you cut and paste from Word you may get fewer
character in each message than you expected. Be warned!
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