I had a little but annoying problem when writing sms on my Samsung phone (S7550): I just couldn’t find a way to type some special characters like “ê”, î or “ë”. Mostly useless in English, but unavoidable in French!
I was almost ready to accept that glitch as some strange bug or carelessness from Samsung, until I found where it came from: by default, Samsung phones (mine at least) are configured by default to use some “GSM alphabet”, which apparently doesnt include some accentuated letters. The strange thing is I never had that problem with my old Nokia phone. Anyway, the solution can be found under:
Menu -> Messages -> Settings -> SMS -> Sending preferences -> Alphabet
Choose “UNICODE” or better: “Auto” instead of “GSM alphabet” in the drop down menu and you’re all set!
The problem with the UNICODE option is that it will limit the length of the SMS to 70 characters instead of the normal 160. Using the “Auto” option, your phone will detect if you are using any character not in the default GSM alphabet, and will make the SMS a Unicode SMS accordingly (only 70 characters long). If you don’t use any of those special characters, the SMS will remain a “normal” SMS (160 characters).
Link: GSM alphabet table.
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j’aimerais savoir ou je trouve les trémas
Haha, put it in smilies and looks like system has converted to a stream of question marks 8:) #irony
Brill answer, had exactly that problem (and have also just moved from lumia to a Samsung ????????
In french je voudrais savoir comment faire la ponctuation accents et signes sur mon samsung galaxy s6
PERFECT!
I couldn’t figure out why I could see special characters and emojis, but would always get an error message when sending them. I had it on GSM and switching to Automatic fixed the problem. Thanks!
Thank you helped a great deal
i have a samsung b350e and I can’t find the ñ using number 6 in the keypad. it shows that character when someone messaged me but I cannot type that character. do you know the solution?
Thank you. Now if i can just figure out why my samsung note 5 has stopped automatically changing ive to I’ve.
Thank you. You had the best explanation in plain English. Everyone else gave me some technical answer.
.sur mon samsung gt-c3590 ça ne donne pas de résultats
Comment mettre en place accents aigus graves circonflexe etc lors redaction sms
lol that isn’t ‘strange’ just diff phn manufacturers. nothing strange goin on. go back to ur zombie flix
My cell phone is a Samsung GT-C3520I. What character support can I use so I can send text messages in English. I have tried all 3 options GSM Alphabet/Unicode/automatic but could no succeed….Thanks for your assistance
Merci beaucoup !vous m’avez donné la solution pour ce problème qui m’énervait depuis longtemps !!
Merci pour cette solution !
Bonjour,
J’ai le même problème sur mon téléphone, un Samsung Solid B2710, et ça s’est résolu, la première fois, quand je l’ai mis en “automatique”, mais au bout d’une heure à peine (quand j’ai activé Facebook, en fait), les accents ne s’affichaient à nouveau plus. Dans l’alphabet GSM, j’en ai quelques uns, mais très peu (les é, è, à…) et dans les autres (unicode et automatique), plus rien. Avez-vous une idée de ce qu’il se passe ?
Thanks for the tip. I have a new Samsung phone and was going crazy with the text. All my friends got garbage from my txt. Now it’s all ok.
Grand Merci Nikopol ! Je suis ravie, grâce à vous, de connaître enfin la solution !
Cela marche ! Merci, l’année prochaine je pourrai souhaiter une bonne fête à mon neveu Benoît avec les accents !
very gôôôd.
Merci beaucoup, ô divine rencontre internet !
I have a A847 samsung rugby phone and want to change the text setting to one letter at a time How?