English or chinese input

Hi,
Is there a way to identify whether text in message box is chinese character (2 bytes) or alphanumeric (1 byte)? The reason i want to do this is just to limit the message length, if english, i will set the limit to 160 chars for example, and if chinese, will limit to 70 chars.
Thankssss in advance

I've posted an SR and I've been told that "Questions of this
nature will receive the fastest response (generally real time to 24hrs
timeframe) if they are posted on the XML Publisher Customizations Forum.
The XML Publisher Customizations Forum is now monitored on a daily basis by
Oracle Software Support (OSS) with the highest importance."
So? Any help will be appreciated.

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