GSM 03.38 Encoding

The standard SMS mobile-phone character set is used universally to send text messages. The standard character set allows few of the Roman alphabet and the most common accented forms, certain special characters, and few Greek alphabet characters.

Basic Character Set

@ £ $ ¥ è é ù ì ò Ç LF Ø ø CR Å å Δ _ Φ Γ Λ Ω Π Ψ Σ Θ Ξ ESC Æ æ ß É SP ! " # ¤ % & ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ? ¡ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Ä Ö Ñ Ü § ¿ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ä ö ñ ü à

Extended Character Set

These characters take 2 characters to send

€ ^ | { } \ ~ [ ]

7-bit Encoding

The following are the characters supported in a 7-bit encoding:

@ Δ SP 0 ¡ P ¿ p £ _ ! 1 A Q a q $ Φ " 2 B R b r ¥ Γ # 3 C S c s è Λ ¤ 4 D T d t é Ω % 5 E U e u ù Π & 6 F V f v ì Ψ ' 7 G W g w ò Σ ( 8 H X h x Ç Θ ) 9 I Y i y LF Ξ * : J Z j z Ø ESC + ; K Ä k ä ø Æ , < L Ö l ö CR æ - = M Ñ m ñ Å ß . > N Ü n ü å É / ? O § o à

These characters are charged as one character.

Available characters per SMS

While using GSM 03.38 the available characters per SMS are 160.

Characters outside GSM 03.38 will reduce to 70 characters available.

For more information on GSM 03.38 characters, please visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_03.38