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Why do you send a MMS when sending an emoji? That doesn‘t make sense to me…
by endofreach 5y ago
Why do you send a MMS when sending an emoji?
That doesn‘t make sense to me…
- brirec 5y agoTo my knowledge you don’t. But SMS messages natively only use 7-bit ASCII. Sending emojis requires both carrier and device/OS support, because it’s impossible to represent an emoji using pure 7-bit ASCII. As an aside, Unicode SMS messages fit far fewer characters per message (around 70 as opposed to 160), so most mobile devices still default to 7-bit ASCII unless the message can’t be represented as such.
- prmoustache 5y agoAnytime you send something in utf-8 you send an mms if my memory is correct. SMS only works with ASCII and thus english language.
- dotancohen 5y agoI'm pretty sure that I was sending Hebrew SMS messages before I had an MMS-capable device or service. Circa 2001 or so.
- kalleboo 5y agoSMS natively supports three encoding schemes: 7-bit GSM (English+Nordic+Uppercase Greek), 8-bit national encodings, and Unicode UCS-2 (although modern devices use UTF-16 in the UCS-2 mode)