I know it is even worse for some other languages, but I don't think it is very interesting to calculate exact numbers for a couple of hundred languages. The most typical worse case for a SMS is 70 two byte chars.
John Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Did you consider what this does in other scripts ... the notion that it is a > small number of characters is based on the notion that the script will be > the Latin script.. Other scripts tend to show as the Unicode numbers.. > Thanks, > GerardM > > 2009/7/3 Brian <[email protected]> > >> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:32 PM, John at Darkstar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Minimum attribution of «Terms of Use» from Wikimdia Foundations site >>> would be >>> " >>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use >>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"; >>> >>> That is 96 chars, with spaces, of 140 bytes available in a SMS. For some >>> languages the attribution will take more than one message. Ooops... >>> >>> John >> >> You just need to provide a url to the article. Type >> wikipedia.org/articleinto your address bar and wait 5 seconds. >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
