SMS Gateway
Messagges In Unicode
What is Unicode.
Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. Before Unicode was invented, there were hundreds of different encoding systems for assigning these numbers. No single encoding could contain enough characters: for example, the European Union alone requires several different encodings to cover all its languages. Even for a single language like English no single encoding was adequate for all the letters, punctuation, and technical symbols in common use.
These encoding systems also conflict with one another. That is, two encodings can use the same number for two different characters, or use different numbers for the same character.
Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language.
Unicode is required by modern standards such as XML, Java, ECMAScript (JavaScript), LDAP, CORBA 3.0, WML, etc., and is the official way to implement ISO/IEC 10646. It is supported in many operating systems, all modern browsers, and many other
products. The Unicode Consortium (http://www.unicode.org)
is a non-profit organization founded to develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard, which specifies the representation of text in modern software products and
standards.
The Unicode has been adopted also for the use of the cellular phones and the Sms messages.
Thanks to the Unicode encoding for Arab people, a Chinese or a Japanese now it's possible to send a message sms using just the character set, as already it happens for Internet.
Our SMS Gateway accept also the concatenated messages in UNICODE to operators that currently support them.
Attention!
For the UNICODE UTF-8 format, it must be inserted the Tag HTML of
chartset into web pages, example: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252"> or <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
