[Q] Force SMS encoding from Unicode to ISO

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Hey there.

I'm from Portugal and here we have some accentuated letters like "à á é ç ã õ".

When the system language is set to English and we insert one of these letters the SMS limit falls down from 160 charachters to 70 because it changes the encoding of the SMS .

What I would like to know is if it's possible to come with an hack to force the system to encode the SMS in a particular way so these kind of letters don't cut us 90 characters off the message please.

Actually this is a problem in a lot of countries. Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and the list goes on... Any country that speeks a latin language really.


So, can anyone help us out?

PS: I own a Samsung Galaxy S at the moment

Same problem here

Got a Magic 32A from Portuguese operator TMN
I'm running CyanogenMod 6.0.0 RC3

What happens is that if i set Android in Portuguese language the SMS's work as expected.
If you change the language to English, when writing an SMS, if a character like "á" "é" is used you end having only 70 characters available.

My interest was to use Android in English but send SMS's with latin characters whithout having only 70 characters available per SMS.

In Windows Mobile 5/6 there was an option to disable unicode.

Any help? Thanks in advance

This problem also happens with CyanogenMod 5.0.8

anyone? please?

Samsung Galaxy has the problem solved.
I guess that they solved it by themselves. Neither Google nor HTC give a $hit about it. For instance, HTC still has this problem on all android devices.
I owned a Legend with Android 2.2, and the problem persisted. As it was still in warranty, I returned it to the store, got refunded, and bought a Samsung Galaxy

you should feel fortunate that at least you can send the unicoded characters here in the US, most carriers do not properly send unicoded characters, and instead they arrive as BLOCKS on the recipient phone. So imagine wanting to send an SMS with a foreign language that contains accents or unicoded characters when living in the US. You really can't.

To that end, it'd be nice if one of the SMS programs had an option to convert all Unicoded text messages to ASCII prior to sending. This way you can continue to use your foreign language keyboard and dictionaries with accents and unicoded characters and be confident that the message will not be corrupted when sent. And it'd allow a 160 character ASCII message as well.

this is native issue of the SMS, not the phone or OS issue

if you want to force encoding without Unicode, characters like à á é ç ã õ will convert to a a a c a o accordingly.

Still have the same issue. This is stupid really

Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
Moving to Q&A

Anyone? I have the same problem in runnymede.