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Lawrence
11-01-2002, 03:59 AM
Hi everyone!

I'm using a French version of the Treo 270.
I got the problem that the letters ç and ê cannot be sent by sms.

Does someone have a/the solution?
Thanks

nzmoko
11-28-2002, 09:15 AM
Originally posted by Lawrence
Hi everyone!

I'm using a French version of the Treo 270.
I got the problem that the letters ç and ê cannot be sent by sms.

Does someone have a/the solution?
Thanks

Salut Lawrence !
J'écris en anglais pour toutes les personnes...

The problem is with the Treo SMS application. It only recognises 8bit characters. Some characters, like accent circonflexe (^), use an extra bit. Handspring know about this problem but will only fix when they release a new Treo :(

I have not tried it but maybe MaxTEXT (http://www.maxtext.net/) may help - it is a third party SMS application. Be sure to download the Treo version.

Bonne chance !

Lawrence
11-28-2002, 01:12 PM
Salut Nzmoko,

Thanks for the info. I'll check this and give my feed back here.

Lawrence