{"id":452,"date":"2017-01-05T16:47:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T11:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2025-03-02T22:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T17:09:03","slug":"special-characters-counted-bulk-sms-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/special-characters-counted-bulk-sms-services\/","title":{"rendered":"How Special Characters are Counted in Bulk SMS Services?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is going to be a very small post explaining <strong>&#8220;How Special Characters are Counted in Bulk SMS Services&#8221; <\/strong>from any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\">bulk SMS aggregator<\/a> across the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have been getting several mails from our resellers and customers to integrate our SMS API and understanding the SMS Characters count policy. So here it goes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Special characters such as<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">_ # () &lt; &gt; % : ; . ? * + &#8211; \/ &amp; \u223c ! = , &#8221; \u2019<code class=\"html plain\">|^\u20ac{}[]~<\/code><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">are treated and counted differently from character to character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have also explained in this post, <a title=\"SMS Length Calculation Explained, How SMS Credits are Counted?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/sms-length-calculation-credits-counted\/\">SMS Length Calculation Explained, How SMS Credits are Counted?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Basic Character Set: GSM 7 Bit Alphabet:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Following characters are counted as single character.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>[html]@\u00a3$\u00a5\u00e8\u00e9\u00f9\u00ec\u00f2\u00c7&#8217;\u00d8\u00f8&#8217;\u00c5\u00e5\u0394_\u03a6\u0393\u039b\u03a9\u03a0\u03a8\u03a3\u0398\u039e&#8217;\u00c6\u00e6\u00df\u00c9 !&#8221;#\u00a4%&amp;'()*=,-.\/0123456789:;&lt;=&gt;?\u00a1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\u00c4\u00d6\u00d1\u00dc&#8217;\u00bfabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\u00e4\u00f6\u00f1\u00fc\u00e0[\/html]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Extension Table Characters:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Following characters are counted as two characters.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>[html]|^\u20ac{}[]~[\/html]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"804\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/special-character-sms.jpg\" alt=\"Special Character SMS\" class=\"wp-image-453\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hope this post clarifies many of our customers doubts and should help them in integrating our SMS API in your project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To test live for yourself with English and unicode languages, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/sms-length-calculator\/\">SMS Length Calculator<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to take up a demo for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\">bulk SMS services<\/a><\/strong>, don&#8217;t hesitate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/contact\/\">contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is going to be a very small post explaining &#8220;How Special Characters are Counted in Bulk SMS Services&#8221; from any bulk SMS aggregator across the world. We have been getting several mails from our resellers and customers to integrate our SMS API and understanding the SMS Characters count policy. 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