Emoticons on iPhone - Messaging

[martini]

I will also add, that whilst emoji might take up 2 or 3 characters, depending on the coding the total SMS number will reduce to 70 so if you go over 70 characters then it becomes 2 SMS.

 

Try it then look on your bill.

 

No question about it

[Whitesupraboy2]

You misunderstand.

 

The iPhone uses OSX - now called iOS. This has many languages enabled by default, just like Apple's computers. You do not need to install any languages - in fact, you cannot install languages onto the iPhone. Apple controls which languages are on the iPhone.

 

If you type : - ) then that uses three characters.

 

If you use a smiley face through the use of anything other than the emoji [Japanese] keyboard, then it will only reduce via 3.

 

If you go into the language settings and enable emoji via the Japanese keyboard, it changes the encoding of the message and reduces the total characters to 70.

 

I'm not wrong on this.

 

 

Not saying your wrong, im just interested now....

 

so if i send;

 

a txt with smiley icon and 20 words...1 txt

 

a txt with smiley icon and 80 words...2 txt

 

a txt no smiley icon and 100 words...1 txt

[martini]

Not saying your wrong, im just interested now....

 

so if i send;

 

a txt with smiley icon and 20 words...1 txt

 

a txt with smiley icon and 80 words...2 txt

 

a txt no smiley icon and 100 words...1 txt

 

Got it [You meant characters not words ]

 

That's the important point; once you use a multibyte character in an SMS (Japanese text, emoji, whatever), the SMS can then only carry 70 characters, regardless of what they are (meaning English letters as well, 70 characters maximum)

[Whitesupraboy2]

ok got ya.

 

Maybe ive just never noticed it, im gonna keep an eye on my bill now, got unlimited txt not that it matters