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Interesting; emojis also make SMS really weird. according to twilio including a emoji will change the character limit from 160 to 70
by tylergetsay 3y ago
Interesting; emojis also make SMS really weird. according to twilio including a emoji will change the character limit from 160 to 70
- dpiers 3y agoThat’s because SMS has a 1120 bit message capacity and uses one of two encoding mechanisms. GSM-7 uses 7 bits per character and a correspondingly limited character set that allows for 1120/7 = 160 characters. UCS-2/UTF-16 uses 16 bits per character for a total of 1120/16 = 70 characters per message.
- locallost 3y agoIt's not weird because it's not a 160 limit in the sense of characters. Non-English language people are I guess more aware of this -- using a character not in the standard English a-z often counts as two characters.