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Encoding setting

Messages sent via the service SMSC may consist of Latin and Cyrillic letters, as well as include special characters (Russian and Latin letters with diacritical marks, letters of the Greek and other alphabets, specific punctuation marks, as well as non-printing characters). When sending messages, it is recommended to use the settings tabled below.

Text

Data coding

Encoding

Message length

Latin

0x00

GSM

160 characters

Latin

0x01

US-ASCII

160 characters

Latin

0x03

ISO-8859-1

160 characters

Cyrillic

0x08

UCS-2

70 characters

⚠️IMPORTANT

Be careful about using the following characters in SMS:

£,¥,è,é,ù,ì,ò,Ç,Ø,ø,Å,å,Δ,Φ,Γ,Λ,Ω,Π,Ψ,Σ,Θ,Ξ,Æ,æ,ß,É,¤,¡,Ä,Ö,Ñ,Ü,§ ¿,ä,ö,ñ,ü,à,

NUL,SOH,STX,ETX,EOT,ENQ,ACK,BEL,BS,TAB,VT,SO,SI,DLE,DC1,DC2,DC3,DC4,

NAK,SYN,ETB,CAN,EM,SUB,FS,GS,RS,US,`,DEL.

Operators may not support these characters or convert messages to Unicode due to their platform or specification, thereby increasing the number of message parts charged.

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