SMS Warehouse Launch Multi-Lingual Web SMS

SMS warehouse announced the launch of a multi-lingual application on their web sms web site which will allow foreign language users (for example Arabic, Greek, Hindu) to send text messages from the site to mobile phones in their own language.

Durban, South Africa (PRWEB) April 11, 2005 -- Sending SMS from a web site in any language using non-latin characters is not an easy task. GSM supports letters of the latin alphabet which allows users to send text messages up to 160 characters (alpha and numeric) in length. Foreign languages such as Arabic and Chinese requires the use of non-latin characters. Unicode is a character encoding standard adopted for use in any application requiring non-latin characters. Today it is a requirement for XML, Java, ECMAScript (JavaScript), LDAP, CORBA 3.0, WML and other to implement ISO/IEC 10646. It is platform, program and language independent and required to send 16-bit messages (unicode) to mobile phones. The use of unicode in the development of applications that will service a broader user market opened new doors for mobile data users.

Enabling the sending of unicode text from a web site at no additional cost allows users that were previously not able to send text due to the latin character limitation, now to do so. The application that was launched is extremely user friendly. It is a java application which is based on the user's keyboard language settings. For example: if your keyboard is set to Greek, it will send the text in Greek - the same with Arabic, Russian and all languages requiring non-latin character set.

Users register online, verify their registration after which they are allowed to log on and send sms. Upon login they are presented with the standard English text format or the option to send Unicode. If the user select unicode, they have the option to change their keyboard setting or send unicode using Hex. Keyboard settings allows the user to type a normal message up to 70 characters, click on "Send message" and off it goes arriving in the recipient's inbox in the language it was sent.

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