In scanning a message to decide if can be sent as a 7 bit or 16 bit alphabet, Latin diacritic characters are not recognized. Because of this a message that could be sent as a 160 character 7 bit string will be sent as a 70 character 16 bit string.
Not a problem if the message is less than 70 characters but annoying if greater than 70 characters.
In summation, sub-optimal adherence to the GSM standard.
mgaman
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2 years ago
In scanning a message to decide if can be sent as a 7 bit or 16 bit alphabet, Latin diacritic characters are not recognized. Because of this a message that could be sent as a 160 character 7 bit string will be sent as a 70 character 16 bit string. Not a problem if the message is less than 70 characters but annoying if greater than 70 characters. In summation, sub-optimal adherence to the GSM standard.