On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 10:49:35 +0100, Ian Phillipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 '_'.
_ is char 17 (0x11) in GSM 03.38.
But many SMS-sending sites do horrible things to messages. They
usually do some kind of non-standard ISO-8859-1 to GSM translation
where accented chars are lost, etc. They also do things like mapping
[{}] into (()), and «» to <<>>, for example.
I'm currently programming a SMS sending service for my company
(www.peoplecall.com), so I'm a bit touchy about those issues :-)
/L/e/k/t/u
