SMS natively supports three encoding schemes: 7-bit GSM (English+Nordic+Uppercase Greek), 8-bit national encodings, and Unicode UCS-2 (although modern devices u

SMS 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)