Message received in Chinese language

[Vikram]

Hi, today i received message in chinese language from tatasky.

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[Abhi]

RE: Massage received in Chinese language

Admins Please hide your subscriber id:shy

 

[M.J.Sadiq]

RE: Massage received in Chinese language

So now hackers hacked Tata Sky SMS server? :shy

 

[Vicky]

RE: Massage received in Chinese language

Received same type of message in rdtv also :shy

 

[SarfaRaZ]

RE: Massage received in Chinese language

So now hackers hacked Tata Sky SMS server? :shy

Really shy

 

[santosh]

Maybe their representative got overdose ??

 

[Bapun]

RE: Massage received in Chinese language

It's likely caused by either/both character encoding incompatibility and/or wrong character encoding..

Character encoding incompatibility
SMS, or text message, in general supports either text-only (e.g. GSM 03.38), or Unicode (e.g. UTF-8, UTF-16, UCS-2). Emoji, a character that resembles an image (not to be confused with emoticon, "a pictorial representation of a facial expression using punctuation marks, numbers and letters"), is supported in Unicode (UTF-16), but not in GSM 03.38.

Wrong character encoding issue
For some reasons, the original character encoding is wrongly interpreted somewhere (e.g. by app, or by text provider), resulting in different character encoding. While in some cases it doesn't affect the text, other cases may result in totally garbled text (refer to Microsoft Windows "Bush hid the facts" bug).

Some details taken from android.stackexchange.com

 

[supermachi]

check your mobile before complaining tata sky

 

[M.J.Sadiq]

check your mobile before complaining tata sky

I am not seeing any complaints rather then a sharing about the SMS received.