student Posted July 2, 2006 at 04:02 PM Report Share Posted July 2, 2006 at 04:02 PM Hi! Having come back from China where text messaging from cell phones using chinese characters seems one of the most common ways of communicating, a friend of mine and I have tried it in the US. I can send text in chinese characters to myself from my Treo 650 (using CJKOS & Cingular), but when I try sending the same message to my friend, he gets garbled junk, and vice versa. When I send a message back to China I get the message "Intended partys provider unable to process request at this time." When friends in China try to send messages to me I get nothing. So: (1) Is it possible to text message in chinese within the US to/from cell phones, and if so, how? (2) Is it possible to text message in chinese between the US and China to/from cell phones? Thanks, student Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prodigal Son Posted July 2, 2006 at 04:47 PM Report Share Posted July 2, 2006 at 04:47 PM I can exchange text messages with friends in the US by putting the country code before the number that I send the message to, but this only works in English. If I sent Chinese it shows up as garbled text because few people have Chinese language installed on their cell phone. If they had it installed I think it would work, though. But to get Chinese installed on their cell phone wouldn't be easy unless they have a very mod-friendly phone, I imagine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
student Posted July 2, 2006 at 05:00 PM Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2006 at 05:00 PM Both my friend and I in the US have chinese installed on our cell phones (CJKOS on Treo 650...) so that doesn't seem to be the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prodigal Son Posted July 2, 2006 at 07:00 PM Report Share Posted July 2, 2006 at 07:00 PM Maybe there's some kind of incompatibility with the service provider - if not in the US, then maybe here if you're using China Mobile or China Unicom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venture160 Posted July 3, 2006 at 02:37 AM Report Share Posted July 3, 2006 at 02:37 AM Most US networks can't handle Chinese text on their networks, they aren't equipped for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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