Looks like a corrupted version of:

[Links removed because no HTML was used as this forum requests]

It looks to be ATT’s fault…

No, this is not the same thing as what your links suggested. This is a character display problem, not a calculating bug of a price.

I have had 2.x (whatever came with my iPhone 3G and 2.1, 2.2 and 2.21) and as a developer, have had 3.0 beta 4 and beta 5 as well as 3.0GM on my iPhone. I have never seen this issue (I have the UK, Swedish and Emoji keyboards enabled.) Either this is a 2G specific error, or it is an ATT error (I’m on O2 in the UK, so can’t comment.)

O2 don’t send alerts though – they send text messages to tell users @stuff@, so maybe it is a bug in whatever mechanism ATT is using to send you information?

My point was that the messages aren’t likely supposed to be sent at all.

That was why I was pointing out the links.

Also, the corruption looks typical of bad data sent by the server. You are correct that it could be a message display problem, but usually garbage in, garbage out is the correct answer.

Given ATT’s track record, and my own personal experience with their “service”, I tend to believe they’re just sending bad data to your phone.

It’s of course possible that the bug is AT&T’s. It’s just a funny bug one way or another. 😀