Help or advice needed on sending text messages 761...

Hi I have a Nokia 7610, I have received a very long text message (approx 13 lines) When I tried to forward it to another mobile I got the following message..MAXIMUM MESSAGE LENGTH REACHED THIS MESSAGE WILL BE SENT IN 3 PARTS. I have received this message before and my text has only been about 4 lines long and I have had to delete some of the characters in order for it to be sent. Have I pressed something on my phone that has made this happen, and if so how do I change it back?

I hope the explanation isn't too technical, but the number of lines is not a good measure, as the phones use different font (text) sizes and different width displays. The actual number of characters is what's significant in this case.
In your case, the message may contain national characters not part of the default SMS alphabet (character set). (E.g., some Greek, Turkish, or other special symbols/characters may not be part of the default SMS alphabet.)
When that happens, instead of using the 7-bit default alphabet, which allows storing of 160 characters in 140 bytes (1 byte = 8 bits) of storage space in a single SMS, the character set switches to using USCS-2 which is a 16-bit Unicode encoding.
This then means that in 140 bytes one can store 70 unicode characters.
With 71 Unicode characters in a message, it means the message exceeds the single-message limit and has to be sent as 2.
A 7-bit character set allows 128 unique character positions only.
An 8-bit character set allows 256 unique character positions, but consumes a little bit more storage space on a computer.
A 16-bit character set allows 65536 unique character positions, and consumes twice as much space than an 8-bit character set.
For the technically inclined, you can read more about character set, e.g., in this article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

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