If you own an Android phone, you’ll be interested in reading this. Even though other technologies like WhatsApp are gradually replacing SMS, sometimes it’s still necessary to send a text message. As you probably know, these messages can contain up to 160 characters. If you exceed that amount, it’s billed as several messages. The number of letters that fit in a message is usually indicated in the message editor.
However, Android users may have noticed that sometimes, when typing a letter, the counter suddenly decreases, with drastic drops of more than 50 letters. This is because when using “special” characters (such as accented vowels), Android switches to encoding the message with an extended character system, reducing the number of characters that “fit” in a message.
Therefore (even if it hurts the RAE), when writing an SMS on Android turn off the dictionary, and keep an eye on the remaining character counter, especially if you need to use special symbols.
