Comment 2 for bug 1484664

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Matthias Apitz (gubu) wrote :

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