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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
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
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Inappropriate?Afaik, it's possible to receive sms with accented characters from Twitter because I've received some on my phone before. But I'm in Asia, not in the US.
I know there are phones that are able to receive and correctly display japanese / chinese / korean languages, so I'm sure sms as a protocol can handle non-english languages.
So while I cannot speak with absolute confidence, I suspect the problem is with the phone of the sms recipient, meaning it's likely that their phone can only handle english characters. -
Inappropriate?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...
I’m still hopeful, though
