Re: split sms

What are these special characters that needs to be escaped? And how
would I determine if the message if 8 or 7 bit encoded?  

I am sending pure text messages only.  The reason why i want the sms
split up 160 characters per message is that I place 1/3 on the first 3
charcters, then 2/3 on characters 161 to 163, and 3/3 on characters 321
to 323.  When the user receives the message separately, he'll see the
x/3 at the start of every message.  Anybody have an idea on how to
correctly implement this?

Thanks.

Oded Arbel wrote:
> 
> 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.
> >
> >