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storm
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Username: Bara9181

Post Number: 16
Registered: 02-2014
Posted on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 08:18 pm:   

Hi,

why if i have text message in Arabic with 140 character its segmented to 3 segment not 2 ?
Des - NowSMS Support
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Username: Desosms

Post Number: 5241
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 10:01 pm:   

Hi,

Because, Unicode UTF-16 character encoding must be used, and each character uses 2 bytes.

If longer than 70 Unicode characters, segmentation headers must be added to allow the receiver to reassemble. These headers are 6 bytes or the size of 3 UTF-16 characters, which leaves space for 67 Unicode characters per long message segment.

More here: http://www.nowsms.com/long-sms-text-messages-and-the-160-character-limit

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Des
NowSMS Support
storm
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Username: Bara9181

Post Number: 17
Registered: 02-2014
Posted on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 10:39 pm:   

So if i need the Customer charged for 2 message in Arabic not 3 messages,
what is the max character for 2 message?
Des - NowSMS Support
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Username: Desosms

Post Number: 5242
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 10:51 pm:   

As stated above, 67 Unicode characters per long message segment.

2 x 67 = 134
storm
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Username: Bara9181

Post Number: 18
Registered: 02-2014
Posted on Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 09:42 pm:   

do i must checked the opetion "Encode long messages with 7-bit packed encoding" ?
Des - NowSMS Support
Board Administrator
Username: Desosms

Post Number: 5244
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Saturday, March 21, 2015 - 01:23 am:   

No, that setting is not at all related.