Originally Posted by
korbenn What's the rationale behind it? Why was it introduced in Lumias?
Ok, so I've done a little research on this. From what I understand, when you add a special character, such as a smiley or other emojis, to a msg it switches to Unicode mode. In a regular msg each character is 8 bits, but when using Unicode each character is 16 bits or more. Therefore cutting your msg space in half.
I have found that in a plain ole msg I can continue and send two msgs if I go over, but in Unicode mode of I go over, the recipient doesn't get the first msg.