2. Which character is considered as Unicode?
Using the characters from the following list of ASCII characters are treated as GSM (i.e. Normal):
- a-z
- A-Z
- 0-9
- ~!@#$%^&*()-_=+][?<>,’.”:/\{}
Any other characters is treated as a Unicode (e.g. £). Therefore, if your message contains even a single unicode character then the message is treated as a unicode message and charged accordingly.