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storm New member Username: Bara9181 Post Number: 16 Registered: 02-2014 |
Hi, why if i have text message in Arabic with 140 character its segmented to 3 segment not 2 ? | |||
Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 5241 Registered: 08-2008 |
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 -- Des NowSMS Support | |||
storm New member Username: Bara9181 Post Number: 17 Registered: 02-2014 |
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 Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 5242 Registered: 08-2008 |
As stated above, 67 Unicode characters per long message segment. 2 x 67 = 134 | |||
storm New member Username: Bara9181 Post Number: 18 Registered: 02-2014 |
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 |
No, that setting is not at all related. |