Indian company Geneva Software Technologies has created software that can translate text from English into seventy-one other languages in various written character sets
and send a translation to any cellular phone or mobile device in the world, no matter what character set it’s programmed to use.
Soon we’ll all be connected. The picture-based messages get around the Unicode standard for encoding typed characters in any language (which some devices and older Internet browsers don’t support). I wonder if Unicode will become obsolete one day if even greater advances are made in transmitting pictures of written characters (plus optical character recognition and speech-to-text).