RE: split sms

My guess is that it would attempt to send 160 character in each message
until there will remain less then 160 messages to sent, in which case it
will send them all in one message (shorter then 160 characters). also
note that the size of the messages is dependant on the encoding - for
example, with some SMSCs 8 bit encoded messages can only have 140
characters in them. also with 7 bit encoded messages, some characters
will have to be "escaped" causing each "special character" to consume
two septets, thereby cause a message with one such special character to
have the maximum size of 159 characters, with two such special
characters the max size will be 158 and so on.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Juliano [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:50 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: split sms
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> How does smsbox split a message? I have this URL that returns 
> a maximum
> of 480 characters.  I also set the max-messages in kannel.conf to 3. 
> When smsbox receives the result from my URL, I would assume 
> that it will
> split the result equally.  Thus, the result would be 3 messages with
> each containing 160 characters.  However, this doesn't happen
> everytime.  Sometimes, it's divided equally, sometimes it's not.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>