[haleyjoe]

(I have a blackberry curve 8830)
And when I text on it and I put brackets[] in the text, they take up 2 characters instead of just one character...Anyone know why this is?

[amazinglygraceless]

Ummm, because they are 2 separate characters.

[gtother]

Well. I just tested it on my 8330 and I'm not seeing what you are. I put a single bracket and the character count goes to 159. Add another and it goes to 158. The brackets aren't a matched pair. They are two distinct characters.

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[haleyjoe]

No, I'll put a smiley face like :] and it will go down to 159 characters at the : and down to 157 characters at the ].

[rrrebo]

Does it add a space before or after? Is this just in regular SMS?

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[a_silent_song]

I tried it and I see what you're talking about. My only suggestion is that maybe it's because the bracket is the width of two characters instead of one. It doesn't do it with parenthesis.

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[Username00089]

I tried it and I see what you're talking about. My only suggestion is that maybe it's because the bracket is the width of two characters instead of one. It doesn't do it with parenthesis.

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That's the answer you were looking for right there. It's just counted as 2 characters because of its size.

[howie]

if the size were the cause then it would happen on other BlackBerries and it does not on mine. I would guess more a bug in the software

[Spinny]

It happens on mine.

[howie]

Interesting, and you both are on AT&T. Wonder how many others have this issue

[Spinny]

Not sure whether the carrier is a factor, since I'm using a bootleg OS from elsewhere.

[doctorlove316]

Just tried it on mine and it only counted as 2 characters. Wierd.

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