Weird SMS message split

[Intrepid00]

Anyone get weird splits on text messages? I've noticed it usually happens on emoji but not always on emoji and sometimes just random.

 

[Christopher Demicoli]

SMS can actually use 3 different character sets, depending on both the network carrier and the content of the message.

Basic text messages sent over most cell networks use 7-bit ASCII encoding, resulting in a 160 character limit.

Once Emojis (characters from the UTF-16 extended set) are involved, each character takes up twice as much data, and you're therefore limited to 70 characters.