messages arriving on Chinese characters

I went to the At&T store and they told me to do the software update. (I had avoided it after hearing others complain about it.) Well, I did the software update but the problem hasn't been solved. Apparently I was the 4th person to come into the store that day with this problem. Guess I will try the suggestion about removing the emoticons. Thank you for the advice!

When I send texts from my Samsung s5, some recipients receive my texts in these strange Chinese looking characters. I never use emoticons. I have installed AVG and locked down my apps. That is not working.

I am having the same problem and I don't use emoticons ever. I installed AVG and locked down my apps. I am still having the problem.

In two occasions my text were received in Chinese, not English or Spanish. What's happening?

Same issue for me. Received 4 messages from a friend tonight with an iphone (I have Samsung Galaxy 5) that were completely in what look to me like Chinese characters. Tried to translate them with no luck. Original messages did not contain any emoticons. My network is ATT. We finally had to scrap texting and communicate via voice-to-voice duplex communication. Here's one of the messages: 䁎䁯䁶䀮䀠䀱䁳䁴䀠䁩䁳䀠䁧䁲䁥䁡䁴䀡䀠䁉䀠䁬䁯䁯䁫䀠䁦䁯䁲䁷䁡䁲䁤䀠䁴䁯䀠䁩䁴䀮䀠䁉䀠䁭䁡䁹䀠䁧䁯䀠䁡䁨䁥䁡䁤䀠䁡䁮䁤䀠䁳䁥䁮䁤䀠䁹₉䁡䁬䁬䀠䁡䁮䀠䁥䁭䁡䁩䁬䀠䁡䁢䁯䁵䁴䀠䁴䁨䁥䀠䁳䁰䁲䁩䁮䁧䀠䁢䁲䁥䁡䁫䀠䁨䁯䁵䁳䁥䀠䁪䁵䁳䁴䀠䁴䁯䀠䁧䁥䁴䀠䁴䁨䁥䀠䁢䁡䁬䁬䀠䁲䁯䁬䁬䁩䁮䁧䀠䁯䁮䀠䁴䁨䁡䁴䀠䁱䁵䁥䁳䁴䁩䁯䁮䀮䀠䁔䁨䁡䁴䀠䁷䁡䁹䀠䁷䁥䀠䁣䁡䁮䀠䁪䁵䁳䁴䀠䁣䁡䁴䁣䁨䀠䁵䁰䀠䁡䁴䀠䁤䁩䁮䁮䁥䁲䀮

For me as well--only happens when a a particular iphone friend sends me longer texts (with no emojis). Short ones (even with emojis) come through okay. Just started today.

I still have no answers