my-cool-sms announces the Unicode SMS support

We would like to start this post by thanking all those people who has supported us so far by not just using my-cool-sms but by promoting it through Word of mouth and other means. Within the very first month of the launch, the traffic flow to my-cool-sms website has been overwhelming and SMS sent through my-cool-sms far exceeded our expectations.

Anyway this post is not to discuss our performance for first month but at the moment we have something more important to announce; launch of Unicode SMS support.

So far we were just supporting GSM 160 characters, but we have received so many requests for different language SMS support that we could just not ignore it and no wonder; most of these requests came from Far East Asian and European countries.

So, here we would like to announce that my-cool-sms can send Unicode SMS support as long as receiver’s cell phone can support/ read those characters. So, no matter if you want to you send SMS in Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Thai etc. we will be able to support your messages.


GSM 160 characters and Unicode 70 characters

There are two kinds of SMS that can be sent over internet; GSM 160 characters and Unicode 70 characters.

Standard SMS can contain 160 characters. However, the characters typed must be part of the so-called 7-bit default alphabet as specified by GSM 3.38.
However Unicode contains 70 characters but it can support even those characters not part of 7-bit default alphabet as specified by GSM 3.38. Unicode supports all characters that exist in the world. This implies that through Unicode, you can send SMS in all languages as long as receiver’s cell phone is able to read those characters.

So if you send a Mandarin message to a cell phone in Taiwan it should be able to read that but if you send the similar message to a German cell phone, it might not be able to display Chinese Unicode SMS.

Another unique feature of my-cool-sms is, while you types we the message my-cool-sms will be able to recognize if it is GSM 160 Character message or a Unicode 70 Characters message and will set up the user interface accordingly. So for example if you enter a Hindi or Chinese character, my-cool-sms will automatically set the number of chars to 70 and doesn’t requires you do those setting manually.

All the credit for this new feature goes to the users of my-cool-sms; it only because of your feedback we realized the importance of Unicode 70 Characters and were able to implement this feature. We hope to get similar feed back in future so that we can keep improving my-cool-sms.

Feel free to contact us with your feed-back and feature requests at info@my-cool-sms.com; my-cool-sms@gmail.com

Cheers!!!

My-cool-sms team