I like to get most of my alerts via email to SMS gateway provided by my telco (Telus, Canada). However since they are sent in UTF-8, and SMS does not use UTF-8, it means that for every message, I actually get 2 text messages because the text gets all stretched out. Also, its hardly legible 
Anyone have any tips or suggestions? Think I could perhaps hack up a script to send them out and have the script set more appropriate encoding?

Anyone have any tips or suggestions? Think I could perhaps hack up a script to send them out and have the script set more appropriate encoding?