On Wed, 08 Aug 2001 at 09:29:35 +0200, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
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> On Wed, 08 Aug 2001 13:15:11 +0800, Kye Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> According to GSM 03.38, "Digital cellular telecommunications system
> (Phase 2+); Alphabets and language-specific information", section
> 6.2.1, "Default alphabet", the default 7-bit alphabet available in SMS
> messages does not include the following usual characters: ~^\|[]{}
> OTOH, it does include lowercase letters, so I suppose the restrictions
> in the challenge are arbitrary...
I was going to say that apart from one early example, I've not seen a
GSM phone which *doesn't* do lowercase. Sometimes it's not obvious - on
my phone you hold down a letter key for a while and it changes case.
I just sent myself a test message from Genie.co.uk which did, indeed,
fail to send those prohibited characters. It also mapped '_' to '-' BTW,
but this might be an artefact of the Genie site. My phone doesn't have '_'.
So, the real SMS japh is: print 'Just another Perl hacker,'
...although maybe this can be shortened?
Ian
