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Nokia
PC Suite is an application offered by Nokia that
allows users owning a nokia phone to do various
useful things such as viewing stored sms, edit
catalog entries, view stored pictures etc. One of
its major drawbacks is that it fails to show
properly greek characters in sms. This doesn't
happen for every character, but for the greek
characters that do not exist in the latin alphabet
and for the sms messages stored in gsm 7 bit file
letter encoding (which means for most sms). The
reason it happens, is very simple and it is very
surprising that Nokia people haven't discovered it
yet. So the reason is that, although GSM 7 bit
character encoding does 1 to 1 mapping between GSM 7
bit character encoding and Unicode encoding for
latin letters it doesn't do the same for the greek
letters. To be more clear, GSM 7 bit encoding and
Unicode encoding for latin letter R is the same, but
this is not the case for all greek letters
represented in GSM 7 bit character encoding.
By clicking here
you can find an application (including its source
code) that I created that solves the problem
for sms stored in a pc. The only thing it does is to
look for greek characters in stored sms and
replacing them with the proper unicode code.
By clicking
here you can find the gsm 7 bit alphabet
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