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Supported Characters in a Text Message

Updated: November 21st, 2017

MOBIT currently only supports the use of GSM characters in text messages. All other characters will be stripped out of your text message before it is sent. In this article, we explain the different types of text messages, standard and unicode, and provide you with a list of support characters.

About

A text message is classed as either a standard or unicode message based on the type of characters it contains:

  • Standard messages contain characters from the GSM basic character set, which is listed below. The GSM character set contains the letters of the English alphabet, digits and some special characters, including a few Greek ones.
  • Unicode messages contain characters that aren’t in the GSM basic character set. The Unicode character set contains characters symbols from alphabets such as Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Korean and more, along with special characters and symbols such as emoji, emoticons and kanji.

As mentioned above, MOBIT currently does not allow you to send unicode characters in your text message. If they are found in your text message, they will be removed from your text message.

Supported Characters

The follow list contains the characters that can be used in a text message. This list is known as the GSM basic character set.

Hex
Character name
Character
0x00
COMMERCIAL AT
@
0x01
POUND SIGN
£
0x02
DOLLAR SIGN
$
0x03
YEN SIGN
¥
0x04
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
è
0x05
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
é
0x06
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
ù
0x07
LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
ì
0x08
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
ò
0x09
LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
Ç
0x0B
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE
Ø
0x0C
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE
ø
0x0E
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
Å
0x0F
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
å
0x10
GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA
Δ
0x11
LOW LINE
_
0x12
GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PHI
Φ
0x13
GREEK CAPITAL LETTER GAMMA
Γ
0x14
GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA
Λ
0x15
GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA
Ω
0x16
GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PI
Π
0x17
GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PSI
Ψ
0x18
GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA
Σ
0x19
GREEK CAPITAL LETTER THETA
Θ
0x1A
GREEK CAPITAL LETTER XI
Ξ
0x1B14
CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
^
0x1B28
LEFT CURLY BRACKET
{
0x1B29
RIGHT CURLY BRACKET
}
0x1B2F
REVERSE SOLIDUS (BACKSLASH)
\
0x1B3C
LEFT SQUARE BRACKET
[
0x1B3D
TILDE
~
0x1B3E
RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET
]
0x1B40
VERTICAL BAR
|
0x1B65
EURO SIGN

0x1C
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE
Æ
0x1D
LATIN SMALL LETTER AE
æ
0x1E
LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S (German)
ß
0x1F
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
É
0x21
EXCLAMATION MARK
!
0x22
QUOTATION MARK
"
0x23
NUMBER SIGN
#
0x25
PERCENT SIGN
%
0x26
AMPERSAND
&
0x27
APOSTROPHE
'
0x28
LEFT PARENTHESIS
(
0x29
RIGHT PARENTHESIS
)
0x2A
ASTERISK
*
0x2B
PLUS SIGN
+
0x2C
COMMA
,
0x2D
HYPHEN-MINUS
-
0x2E
FULL STOP
.
0x2F
SOLIDUS (SLASH)
/
0x30
DIGIT ZERO
0
0x31
DIGIT ONE
1
0x32
DIGIT TWO
2
0x33
DIGIT THREE
3
0x34
DIGIT FOUR
4
0x35
DIGIT FIVE
5
0x36
DIGIT SIX
6
0x37
DIGIT SEVEN
7
0x38
DIGIT EIGHT
8
0x39
DIGIT NINE
9
0x3A
COLON
:
0x3B
SEMICOLON
;
0x3C
LESS-THAN SIGN
<
0x3D
EQUALS SIGN
=
0x3E
GREATER-THAN SIGN
>
0x3F
QUESTION MARK
?
0x40
INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK
¡
0x41
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
A
0x42
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B
B
0x43
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C
C
0x44
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D
D
0x45
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E
E
0x46
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F
F
0x47
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G
G
0x48
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H
H
0x49
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I
I
0x4A
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J
J
0x4B
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K
K
0x4C
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L
L
0x4D
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M
M
0x4E
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N
N
0x4F
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O
O
0x50
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P
P
0x51
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q
Q
0x52
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R
R
0x53
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S
S
0x54
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T
T
0x55
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U
U
0x56
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V
V
0x57
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W
W
0x58
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X
X
0x59
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y
Y
0x5A
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z
Z
0x5B
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
Ä
0x5C
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
Ö
0x5D
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH TILDE
Ñ
0x5E
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
Ü
0x5F
SECTION SIGN
§
0x60
INVERTED QUESTION MARK
¿
0x61
LATIN SMALL LETTER A
a
0x62
LATIN SMALL LETTER B
b
0x63
LATIN SMALL LETTER C
c
0x64
LATIN SMALL LETTER D
d
0x65
LATIN SMALL LETTER E
e
0x66
LATIN SMALL LETTER F
f
0x67
LATIN SMALL LETTER G
g
0x68
LATIN SMALL LETTER H
h
0x69
LATIN SMALL LETTER I
i
0x6A
LATIN SMALL LETTER J
j
0x6B
LATIN SMALL LETTER K
k
0x6C
LATIN SMALL LETTER L
l
0x6D
LATIN SMALL LETTER M
m
0x6E
LATIN SMALL LETTER N
n
0x6F
LATIN SMALL LETTER O
o
0x70
LATIN SMALL LETTER P
p
0x71
LATIN SMALL LETTER Q
q
0x72
LATIN SMALL LETTER R
r
0x73
LATIN SMALL LETTER S
s
0x74
LATIN SMALL LETTER T
t
0x75
LATIN SMALL LETTER U
u
0x76
LATIN SMALL LETTER V
v
0x77
LATIN SMALL LETTER W
w
0x78
LATIN SMALL LETTER X
x
0x79
LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
y
0x7A
LATIN SMALL LETTER Z
z
0x7B
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
ä
0x7C
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
ö
0x7D
LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE
ñ
0x7E
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
ü
0x7F
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
à



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