Saƙo Mai Girman Byte 140: Fahimtar Tsarin GSM 03.38 (GSM-7) da UCS-2
Kowane daidaitaccen tsarin Short Message Service (SMS) da ake watsawa ta hanyoyin sadarwa na salula an iyakance shi sosai zuwa bits 1,120 (octets/bytes 140). A ƙarƙashin ƙayyadaddun bayanai na 3GPP TS 23.038, lokacin da saƙo ke amfani da haruffa kawai daga tsoffin haruffa 128 na GSM-7 da haruffan da aka faɗaɗa, kowane harafi yana cunkushewa ta amfani da bits 7 (septet). Raba bits 1,120 da bits 7 a kowane septet yana samar da shahararren iyakar SMS na haruffa 160 ($1120 / 7 = 160$).
Duk da haka, a daidai lokacin da saƙo ya ƙunshi harafi wanda ke waje da tsarin haruffan GSM-7—kamar Cyrillic, Larabci, Hindi, ko glyph na Sinanci, emoji, ko alamar zance mai lankwasa (`U+2019`)—ƙofar SMS dole ne ta sake lissafta dukkan payload ɗin ta amfani da UCS-2 (bits 16 / bytes 2 a kowane rukunin lambobi). Raba bits 1,120 da bits 16 nan take yana rage ƙarfin saƙo ɗaya zuwa haruffa 70.

