Receiving longer texts in chinese.

[AC Question]

I have a ZTE straight talk phone. Just about a week ago. My girlfriend would text me a longer text and it appears to be Chinese symbols. I have copied and pasted them into translators and it doesn't seem to stand for anything.
The shorter texts are fine but everytime she sends anything longer than a sentence this happens. She then has to send me a screenshot what she actually texted. It is really annoying. Had the phone since March with no issues. She has a Samsung Galaxy. I have scanned for viruses and everything is fine. It doesn't happen with anyone else's texts that I receive..just hers. It's odd. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this fixed please?

 

[nahoku]

I'm guessing you've already checked the language/keyboard settings on "her" phone?

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! There are several threads about this already. Try these:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...et-mt-text-chinese-writing-2.html#post5491119
http://forums.androidcentral.com/as...galaxy-s5-suddenly-sending-texts-chinese.html

 

[Yuliavb]

The same thing happened to my galaxy s4. Saddenly I am getting some messages in Chinese. I noticed my husband used smileys (which he always used in a past ). Yet, when he sent the same message without a smiley, it did go through.on the other hand, I got a message from my sis today. No smileys - Chinese...
I tried antivirus, all updates .. Nothing helps.
Let me know if you find a solution.

 

[KENYONB]

me too. Nexus 6. Nougat. got one text in Chinese characters. seems like a random carrier bug?

 

[OklaHomeSeller]

I noticed this start happening about a week ago. A previous poster noted that they could log-in to messages.att.net and see the messages. This is the case on my end as well. I can log into ATT and see the messages without any issue that are being displayed on my phone as Chinese Characters.

Phone: Galaxy Note 5
Messaging App: I'm using Textra, and also have some other messaging apps installed (mightytext, for one).
Android Version 6.0.1
Kernel Version 3.10.61-8961126

I also noticed when I logged into AT&T that there are some messages that I'm not receiving at all!

 

[KrystalSue11]

Do you all have at&t? This happened to my fiance. I received his text in chinese. Its so weird and strange. Could it be a hack or maybe carrier problem?

 

[ManiacJoe]

According to posts over at forums.att.com, there is a problem on the AT&T servers sending or receiving texts. AT&T is working to solve the problem.