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Evan Quinlan replied on June 27, 2008 16:45 to the question "Can SMS Tweets display foreign characters in the US?" in Twitter:
Yeah, it scares me that every time I've heard of people successfully receiving special characters on their phone they've been outside of the United States. You're probably right that it's the phones, and I doubt carriers in the US will work hard to get Americans special character capability in their phones...
Don't know how reliable it is, but I found this page that seems to confirm my fears:
http://www.smsmac.com/help/discover/a...-
equinlan asked a question in Twitter on June 27, 2008 14:28:
Can SMS Tweets display foreign characters in the US?My company offers a foreign language Word of the Day service. One of the ways we offer it is through Twitter. Each day we post a new foreign word to our Twitter account (through TwitterFeed). However, the numerous non-English, accented characters contained in these words don't show up properly when people receive the Tweets on their cell phones. Rather, the special characters are removed or replaced with the letter "i" or something like that.
My question is, does SMS not support accented characters? And if it does, how can we encode our data properly? Are we just plain out of luck if we're in the US?
Apologies if this has already been answered; I couldn't find it directly addressed anywhere in this forum...
-Evan
