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This evening at ProTV news a rather interesting case was presented of a man who sent an SMS to 340 people and found out that he had to pay the equivalent of over 4500 sent messages. In the report, the respective person is holding an iPhone and the report induces the idea that this phone model was used to send the respective SMS. It is known that a text message has only 160 characters and anything that exceeds this value leads to the message being split in 2, but the person in question probably did not know this and composed a message of 1280 characters that were divided into 30 messages different. The problem was not only in the long text but probably in the use of diacritics that led to a redistribution of the messages and from here the figure of 30 messages for 1280 characters resulted.
"If a user writes a text with 160 characters and uses only one special character, the initial text will be automatically fragmented into three different messages, with a maximum of 70 characters each."
You probably know that the iPhone includes an option that displays the number of characters entered in a text message, but it is disabled by default and must be activated from Settings>Messages>Character Count. Be very careful when sending long messages because you might wake up with a surprise from the telephone operator.
