1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a processor, from a short message entity, for delivery to a mobile device, a message comprising a payload, the payload having a character encoded therein in accordance with a first character encoding scheme, wherein the message comprises a Parlay-X send short messaging service message and the character is encoded in accordance with a Parlay-X extensible markup language data coding scheme; receiving, by the processor, from the short message entity, a second encoding scheme comprising a short message peer-to-peer data coding scheme; and transforming, by the processor, the message from the first character encoding scheme, comprising the Parlay-X extensible markup language data coding scheme, to the second character encoding scheme, comprising the short message peer-to-peer data coding scheme, yielding a modified message comprising the payload of the message encoded in the short message peer-to-peer data coding scheme.
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a processor, from a short message entity, for delivery to a mobile device, a message comprising a payload, the payload having a character encoded therein in accordance with a first character encoding scheme, wherein the message comprises a Parlay-X send short messaging service message and the character is encoded in accordance with a Parlay-X extensible markup language data coding scheme; receiving, by the processor, from the short message entity, a second encoding scheme comprising a short message peer-to-peer data coding scheme; and transforming, by the processor, the message from the first character encoding scheme, comprising the Parlay-X extensible markup language data coding scheme, to the second character encoding scheme, comprising the short message peer-to-peer data coding scheme, yielding a modified message comprising the payload of the message encoded in the short message peer-to-peer data coding scheme. 6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the message comprises a multimedia component, the multimedia component comprising at least one characteristic selected from a group consisting of an image, a sound, and a video.