Sending texts to Russia with Cyrilic characters? - Help!!

Buster_Danog

Does anyone know how I can do this? I'm having a nightmare trying to find a way to do it from my phone. I would have to install the Russian language update on my phone, but this seems to be extremely difficult to do unless you are a phone software geek.

I seen Martin's article, which mentioned "Fishtext" for international texts, but I went to their website and they do not seem to support Cyrillic characters.

I can't believe how difficult and frustrating this is. :mad: I just want to send a text in Russian, so that the recipient will receive my phone number with the text, and will know I sent it. Can anyone offer any advice???

Buzby

You won't - at least not easily. Mobile networks support the most basic character sets for their own territory. As you clearly understand the language, a web-based service that allows free SMS to USSR mobiles is your bewst bet. For years thre UK networks blanked out accented characters simply bacause their software was not set up for it - Cyrillic will be a non starter, even if you had a handset that could gererate the code! As soon as the text hit the SMC, it would fall apart.

grumbler

Sergeant_Troy wrote: »

...Can anyone offer any advice???

Just use latin letters to write russian words. I think 'latinic' is very common there. You can use http://translit.ru/ to translate Cyrillic text to 'latinic' or vice versa.

NFH

Using my iPhone, I've sent SMS in Cyrillic several times via Orange to other UK networks. Each message has only 80 (as opposed to 160) characters because Unicode uses two bytes per character. All you need to do is activate a new keyboard within the iPhone without installing anything new. The messages come out fine.

grumbler

Yesterday I tried to send a text message with cyrilic characters from Orange website and it refused to do this because of 'nonstandard' characters.

EDIT: just tried to add Russian keyboard to my Desire and to send a few cyrilic symbols to myself. It worked fine: sent and received, Orange.