On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: > Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:57:14 +0200 > From: Helge Hafting <[email protected]> > To: Alexander Fell <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Shr-User] double quotes in SMS = 6 characters? > > Alexander Fell wrote: >> Hi, >> >> when I use double quotes in the SMS compose window, the counter of the >> remaining characters goes down by 6 characters. Single quotes and other >> special characters do not show this behavior. The question is: Bug or >> are the double quotes a special encoding that requires 6 characters? I >> don't have another phone here to check that out. > > An SMS is counted in bytes, while some unicode characters use several. > I did not know you get get to 6 bytes for a quote symbol though. >
There was a bug with special characters - the edit field would supply those using HTML entities (& for '&' etc.): http://shr-project.org/trac/ticket/153 The bug was fixed, but maybe the counting was not and this is a remnant of that bug, for """ is 6 chars. David _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
