you will never get 160 chars through; the max length is 140 byte and the rumor of 160 has to do with the idea that you can pack 160 7-bit ASCII chars into 140 bytes; but nowadays nobody sends ASCII, all are sending some fency stuff; a good background article about Unicode in SMS is here: https://www.twilio.com/engineering/2012/11/08/adventures-in- unicode-sms
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to messaging-app in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1484664 Title: Visual feadback when the message one is writing is going to be split into multiple ones Status in messaging-app package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: It would be nice to have some sort of visual indication when the message we are currently writing is going to be broken down into multiple SMS because it is too long. That would help those of us who are on prepaid plans save some money. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/messaging-app/+bug/1484664/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

