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 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