C3-01 - does the phone send two SMS messages inste...

Question

I decided to purchase this phone, however....
...a friend of mine told me, that when I type SMS message with country specific characters (e.g. ę, ó, ć), the message is split into two messages in the background with no indication to the user. In other words, the phone does not inform me in any way, that I will be charged for two SMS messages instead of only one. In such a situation (usage of country-speciffic letters) other Nokia phones show that a number of characters available in one SMS decreases from 160 to about 90. But C3-01 doesn't inform me about this. :-( So that I never know for how many SMS-es I will pay.
Does anybody know if C3-01 really works like this? Does it show 160 characters available for one SMS, but in reality may split this message into two messages in the background?
I hope that somebody from Nokia team will be able answer this question...
best regards,
Alek

Answer 1

Thanks for the answer.
Yes, C3-01 does have the letter counter, but it seems that the counter shows wrong data (that is my doubt about the phone). I mean, that it shows 160 characters in one SMS, but in reality only 70 characters are available (because UNICODE is used).
So that, you type SMS 130 characters long and you think that you will be charged for one SMS (because the phone shows 160 letters available in one SMS). But looking at your billing, you see that the message was split into two SMS-es and you are charged for both of them.
I would like to find out if the phone behaves like this - showing one SMS on the screen, but in reality splitting this SMS into two separate messages.