Message coding?

[Alexander Syring]

Hi
I sent an text message to a friend of mine but he can't read the message. Does 
anybody has same problems? I think the problem was the german "umlaute äöü".

And the other problem is, that messages I get with "umlaute" are crippled like 
this text
 ...  k|nnen.W~rd ...
should displayed as
... können. Würd ...

I've read on wikipedia that the message should coded with 7bit.
Does openmoko-messages code the text with 7bit?

regards
Alex