Also sprach Jean-Marc Liotier [Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:08:42AM +0200] : > Also sprach Henry H [Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:57:50PM -0500] : > > > > These are limitations of the SMS protocol (140 character limit) > > [..] > > Actually the GSM specification is 160 characters per message. And that > is merely a restriction at protocol level : at the application level, > most modern GSM terminals are capable of slicing a message of usually up > to 800 characters in up to five messages as necessary, and that is > transparent to users at both ends. Of course there is the issue that SMS > is still often billed according to usage - but that is not a technical > issue.
Ok - before anyone nitpicks... It is 160 if you encode on seven bit, but if you want eight bit encoding then it is 140... So let's say 140 since I guess we want support of alphabets other than latin...
