Strange messages from Apple

SteelCityAnne wrote:

The first message is Russian , the second is Italian .

Neither of those messages looks like Russian (which I can read) or Italian to me. What about those messages makes you think they are those languages? Neither Russian nor Italian use the yen (Japanese currency) symbol as part of their regular alphabet.

I can tell you with 100% certainty that it's not Russian (it may have been thrown by a couple of Greek letters in the original). And, given that the "translation" for the "Italian" is identical to the original, I'm almost certain it's not Italian. I think the translation algorithm just isn't programmed to say "I have no idea."

I have this exact problem and my carrier is Magti as well. My SIM is physical though. Have you managed to solve it?

I believe these messages are sent after trying to activate iMessage. I haven't been able to activate iMessage on my new iPhone for a week now.

UPD: For testing purposes, I managed to activate iMessage using a Cellfie (another carrier) sim card. Looks like the issue most likely lies with Magti.

Please, if you find out something with a Carrier, write here as well. I am also a user of Magti and I have been trying to activate iMessage for the whole week.

Reply to alinalar … SIM / Apple Text Messages

Is Magti your cellular service ?

The first message is Russian , the second is Italian .

I don't know what it is , but it doesn't look good unless you recognize the name and languages ?

Ask about it wherever you acquired the e SIM .

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Tom Gewecke wrote:

Those are just junk charcters, no real language is involved. No idea why, perhaps a carrier issue? What is your carrier and where are you located.

Thanks, Tom!

I've seen one other post about similar messages. It was suggested that these are spam texts.

Reply to IdrisSeabright

I found out a few things that I would like to share :

Magti (Telcell Wireless LLC) is a mobile telecommunications service based in the territory of Georgia , which was part of the Russian empire 1801 to 1917 . They have their own alphabet and Russia contains Georgian-speaking communities . This may have confused the translation algorithm ?

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Important note: Georgia wasn't part of the russian empire, it was occupied by them and then by the USSR for around 70 years.

The characters in the message are not Georgian letters; the sms contains some russian characters (Г) and probably that's why it was detected as such by the translation algorithm. Georgian and russian are absolutely different languages.

This language subject has nothing to do with the failure to activate iMessage, so please let's try to stay on topic - iMessage is still not working for me and many other Magti users (the carrier support is useless).

SteelCityAnne wrote:

Reply to IdrisSeabright

I found out a few things that I would like to share :

Magti (Telcell Wireless LLC) is a mobile telecommunications service based in the territory of Georgia , which was part of the Russian empire 1801 to 1917 . They have their own alphabet and Russia contains Georgian-speaking communities . This may have confused the translation algorithm ?

The text is gibberish. What is confusing the translation algorithm is a couple of greek letters. It's not Russian (the Russian alphabet has some letters that look like Greek letters) and it's not Georgian.

kilosierra10 wrote:

This language subject has nothing to do with the failure to activate iMessage, so please let's try to stay on topic - iMessage is still not working for me and many other Magti users (the carrier support is useless).

SteelCityAnne was responding to a direct question I asked. I would add that community etiquette and culture here frowns on telling people what they can or cannot post.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

. What is confusing the translation algorithm is a couple of greek letters. It's not Russian (the Russian alphabet has some letters that look like Greek letters)

Translation systems detect via the Unicode values of the characters, rather than by how they "look". So there are presumably some Russian characters in there.

Tom Gewecke wrote:

IdrisSeabright wrote:

. What is confusing the translation algorithm is a couple of greek letters. It's not Russian (the Russian alphabet has some letters that look like Greek letters)

Translation systems detect via the Unicode values of the characters, rather than by how they "look". So there are presumably some Russian characters in there.

Thanks for the correction!

I remain in awe of your knowledge on this subject.

IdrisSeabright

I did a press / hold and chose " translate " .

Those are just junk charcters, no real language is involved. No idea why, perhaps a carrier issue? What is your carrier and where are you located.