From: Luke-Jr (luke@dashjr.org)
Date: Fri Oct 29 2010 - 19:58:25 CDT
On Friday, October 29, 2010 08:45:05 pm Leonardo Boiko wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 22:27, Deborah Goldsmith <goldsmit@apple.com> 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…
The thread was discussing US carriers. In the US, most plans seem to include
unlimited SMS... or at least, I don't know anyone who uses SMS and opts for
the pay-per-message billing.
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