On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 22:27, Deborah Goldsmith <[email protected]> wrote: > iPhone 4 supports Unicode in SMS messages. Furthermore, the SMS standard > provides for Unicode in messages:
Only UTF-16 though, which brings SMS’s already appaling low 160/140 character limit to a measly 70. Not a problem if you’re writing Chinese or Japanese, but if you’re writing, say, Spanish, or English with a single symbol requiring you to engage Unicode mode, you’re back to telegram age. I don’t know in your countries, but here the price per SMS really bites… -- Leonardo Boiko
