7 bit or UCS2 SMS — Sony Ericsson P800, P900 and P910

Muzikfreakah 14 May 2003, 10:50

Just now I tried both settings and sent txt to a nokia user. Both were recv properly.
So far, under 7-bit, I am allowed only to type in 69 characters, beyond that, it would say MESSAGE 2 while under UCS2, I can type to 160 characters b4 it goes to MESSAGE 2.

Anybody know of the technical difference?

I read this somewhere. What is the difference? I am on 7 bit but I can type 160 characters before moving to message 2.

Guest 15 May 2003, 01:42

Sorry I don't know the answer to your question but are you the same Muzikfreakah from cliesource!?

Sunil

Muzikfreakah 15 May 2003, 03:12

OT: Yes I am 😊

Guest 15 May 2003, 14:07

Oh that's cool, I didn't think I'd see any fellow cliesourcerors here! So do you still have your nr70 or have you sold it for your p800? If you still have it, do you still use it? I've still got my t675 but it pretty much sits in it's cradle all day! I do miss it though, but the p800 is just so convenient and you can't beat opera for web browsing. If only they'd make zlauncher for the p800!!

Sunil

Muzikfreakah 15 May 2003, 16:42

I sold it to my borther in law. He loves it, I miss it sometimes, more because of the software 😊 Thats what the P800 lacks but is solved more and more each day. As for my needs, I only lack two very significant aps which are : Office reader/editor like documents to go or quickoffice for the palm OS and Video Camera ap, which are both under development 😃 Welcome to AAS by the way. There are two sofwares im using to simulate the "Launchers" in a Plam OS handheld, these are Tracker and Handy Day or ActiveDesk. Try searching for these topics here, you will semi love this aps, well, atleast they will give you the launcher satisfactions, I even used my old Yishow backgrounds for tracker, edited them first though.

simply258 25 Jun 2003, 16:34

umm i thought it was the other way round .. UCS is unicode .. like for sending arabic or chinese or other non-latin letters .. 1 message in UCS is 70 characters and 7-bit is 160 characters .. if u send, for example, an arabic message with 7-bit settings, the recepient will only see question marks ... and if u send a regular english message with UCS set and this regular english message is more than 70 characters it will send as 2 messages .. so twice the charge .. so if u send regular latin letters, set it to 7-bit ..

Jonomac 26 Jun 2003, 12:48

Yes, Simply258 is correct when he states

UCS is unicode .. like for sending arabic or chinese or other non-latin letters .. 1 message in UCS is 70 characters and 7-bit is 160 characters

Because Unicode has thousands more characters available than a standard 7 bit charcter set, for example ASCII (256 characters), it takes up a lot more room to send the data within the confines of the original 160 character limit, hence only being allowed to send 70 maximum.
I've recently had a problem where my phone defaulted to Unicode all the time even though it was set to 7 bit in the setup.
It was solved by just doing a hard reset.

Here's a further explanation...
http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html