Thread: SMS with spanish characters take a lot of characters
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2010-04-19 , 23:38
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Originally Posted by Dr.Marcial View Post
I can understand if they use 2 characters per letter, but 91? only for the first one? something must be broken.
When using one byte, 160. When using extended chars, it's two per char BY FORMAT, not by letter. So you actually get 80 instead of 160, plus other stuff like letting other phones know what to expect, etc.

Think of it this way: All passengers (letters) need to get there. If one has a large behind, the whole group gets upgraded to first class, where seats are twice the size. From 160 seats to 80, minus the fat behind, 79 to begin with.

First character to be DBCS switches modes. No eating 90 chars.
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