If you Text in Irish on Vodafone and use a fada (as in á, é, í, ó, ú) in your text message it will charge you the price of 3 Text Messages for the privilege. This is wrong and a campaign should be started at once to stop this outrageous overcharging and assault on our culture and language.
Also see this article in the Indo.
Does sound strange, alright.
Wow. Just.wow. Feckers!
Farkin Paddies .... Stick it to 'em
A very short text, of less than 70 characters, can include multiple fadas and still be charged as one text.That article makes no sense."If a customer is texting in Irish and they type the full 160 characters, a standard text message, that includes at least one fada, they will be charged for three text messages," a spokeswoman for Vodafone confirmed.
If a text is 160 characters and a fada is used, you get charged for an extra two messages (so, at least 161 characters per fada), but if you send a text with 70 characters and one fada, the fada in that context apparently equals 90 characters or fewer.
The Spanish, French, etc manage to text in their accent-rich languages at no extra cost.
ANY non-unicode extended characters incur extra costs and Polish has far more of these than Irish Gaelic and there are far more Polish speakers/texters in this country thsat Irish Gaelic ones.
HTML Codes - Special Characters for Polish - ASCII Table - Polish HTML Codes
If people don't want to use these characters, simply use the nearest unicode equivalent.
Does this apply to smilies? If it does, I fear for Hammer.
Are these speakers charged extra for using accents in their texts if not then we are being discriminated against and there must be a government and or EU action taken against the mobile phone companies to stop this scam.Originally Posted by statsman
How does one do that?
As far as I was aware, the síneadh fada is unicode.
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