Text Messages: Lacking the % percent key!

[nmitchell]

I just tried to send a text message on my mobile phone using the percent character (%). Turns out, on my phone at least, I can't insert a percent - although I can insert a Yen, a copyright symbol, a registered trademark, a degree symbol and an enter symbol. Why not a percent? Is this just my phone, or are text messages restricted to exclude the

Comments

[catamorphism]

I think it reflects a special kind of nerdiness that your instinct was to write \perc rather than the ASCII code for '%'.

[nmitchell]

I was sending the text to a mathematician, not a computer scientist :-)