Facetious accentuation when texting on current S40

Question

Hello,
There's a bug in the current Series 40 Nokia OS, and it's a quite annoying one. The issue happens when you write (also receive?) a text message, then save it (also send it?). I'm using version 02.03b 08-04-13 RM-840 on a Nokia 301. I had a Nokia 2700 phone before that, with a previous version of the OS, and the issue wasn't there.
What happens is this:
(sorry for the quality, my flatbed scanner is not really used to phones)
Most of the accentuated characters are wiped out, and replaced by their non-accentuated equivalent. Here are in red all the glyphs that are concerned by this radical parsing:
A transcript of the letters as they have been typed when redacting the text message on the phone:
À Â Ä Á Ã Ç É È Ê Ë Ğ Ï Î
Ì Í Ô Ö Ò Ó Ñ Û Ù Ü Ú Ÿ
à â ä á ã ç é è ê ë ğ ï î
ì í ô ö ò ó ñ û ù ü ú ÿ
~ ^ ` « »
And how it is parsed once you save it:
A A Ä A A Ç É E E E G I I
I I O Ö O O Ñ U U Ü U
à a ä a a c é è e e g i i
ì i o ö ò o ñ u ù ü u y
~ ^
The only letters to be preserved with their diacritics are Ä, Ç, É, Ö, Ñ, Ü, à, ä, é, è, ì, ö, ò, ñ, ù and ü. On all the others, the accents are gone. It's not even consistent between uppercases and lowercases! Some characters even entirely disappears – as Ÿ, «, and » (can't we quote anything in a text message?). I can imagine more symbols are affected by this issue, but these are the ones directly accessible when composing from the phone (when set in French, at least).
As a result, you can't write any non-English messages without doing many spelling mistakes and misinterpretations. I still have to test how it behaves when sending and receiving messages.
Does someone have a solution or know if the bug is planned to be fixed?
Many thanks!  : )
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Answer 1

User:Roady has found a working solution to this issue!
Here is it, if ever someone encounters this weirdness too:
From the Menu, go to Messaging → More → Msg. settings → Text messages → Character support ;
Select Full (instead of Reduced) ;
It seems to work : )
(It was actually a feature, not a bug!)