Deploy pre-send transliteration middleware to map Unicode characters (curly quotes, dashes, accents) to GSM-7 equivalents, keeping messages in 1 segment.
Accidental Unicode characters often slip into notification templates through user input, copy-pasting from text editors, or dynamic user names. Deploying smart character transliteration middleware ensures that non-essential Unicode characters are mapped to standard GSM-7 equivalents automatically.
1 Standard Transliteration Mapping Table
- Left/Right Double Quotes (“ ”) -> Standard Quote (")
- Left/Right Single Quotes (‘ ’) -> Standard Apostrophe (')
- En-dash / Em-dash (– —) -> Standard Hyphen (-)
- Ellipsis (…) -> Three periods (...)
- Accented Characters (á, í, ó, ú) -> Plain Latin (a, i, o, u)
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For notification copy, transactional passcodes, and links, transliterating typographic punctuation preserves full semantic meaning while preventing segment inflation.