tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32560458.post116211642214756067..comments2024-01-11T11:56:40.589+01:00Comments on Skype Numerology: SMS: "ç" = pay twice!Jean Mercierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574194645522976288noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32560458.post-21656153548241257522009-02-06T19:09:00.000+01:002009-02-06T19:09:00.000+01:00Hello mroach,thanks for the explanation (in the me...Hello mroach,<BR/><BR/>thanks for the explanation (in the meantime i knew it, but ok, through your comment, my blog is updated!).<BR/><BR/>But i would not say that "it makes sense"! ;-)Jean Mercierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11574194645522976288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32560458.post-11215025881343571182009-02-06T16:18:00.000+01:002009-02-06T16:18:00.000+01:00Actually, this makes sense and is not a Skype bug....Actually, this makes sense and is not a Skype bug. GSM SMS has its own character set called GSM 03.38. It contains most western European characters, but strangely, not a lower-case c-cedilla. See this chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_message_service#GSM<BR/><BR/>So what happens is when you use a lower-case c-cedilla, the whole message has to be encoded using Unicode. Unfortunately UTF-8 isn't supported, so all of your characters get encoded with double-byte characters, thus reducing the number of characters you can type by half.<BR/><BR/>Possibly put a more clear way, when you use a character not in the GSM 03.38 set, every character in your message now takes up two bytes of space instead of one so you can only type half as much per message.mroachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04868516236119265382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32560458.post-1162574641805602432006-11-03T18:24:00.000+01:002006-11-03T18:24:00.000+01:00Hello Nirmalya,i removed the "double" comment and ...Hello Nirmalya,<BR/><BR/>i removed the "double" comment and the apologies.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the information.Jean Mercierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11574194645522976288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32560458.post-1162513148040760242006-11-03T01:19:00.000+01:002006-11-03T01:19:00.000+01:00Thanks for this post about having to pay twice for...Thanks for this post about having to pay twice for that sybmbol. If I may add, I found sending SMS using Skype to be expensive for some of the countries I normally send SMS to. (mainly New Zealand, Malaysia & Singapore). I did a comparison with a lesser known (but reliable) site called smszilla.com. You can have a look at it <A HREF="http://nirmalya.net/blog/archives/2006/08/02/desktop-sms-using-skype/" REL="nofollow">here </A> if you want.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32560458.post-1162295979024355562006-10-31T12:59:00.000+01:002006-10-31T12:59:00.000+01:00Johan,Ik weet dat ze in Estonia mijn blog lezen. D...Johan,<BR/>Ik weet dat ze in Estonia mijn blog lezen. Dus ze zullen wel op de hoogte zijn!<BR/>Op de koop toe heb ik een betatester geïnformeerd.<BR/>:-)Jean Mercierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11574194645522976288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32560458.post-1162245843072083342006-10-30T23:04:00.000+01:002006-10-30T23:04:00.000+01:00That is a good one to report to the Skype developm...That is a good one to report to the Skype development team!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com