How to send text messaging campaigns in a different language

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How to send text messaging campaigns in a different language

Reach or target a niche audience by sending a text message in different languages. With our online SMS service, you can send SMS campaigns in over 650 different languages.

Character Limits

A text message is 160 characters. Some languages use UTF-8 characters, which are larger in size. The SMS character limit can drop from 160 characters to 70 for some languages.

Here’s an in-depth explanation on GSM and Unicode encoding.

Popular Languages

Here’s a list of the most popular languages that our clients can send in:

Chinese
Hindi
Spanish
French
Arabic
Portuguese
Russian
Japanese
Vietnamese
Korean

Through Unicode, you can send texts in any language written in the following scripts:

Latin
Greek
Cyrillic
Armenian
Hebrew
Arabic
Syriac
Thaana
Devanagari
Bengali
Gurmukhi
Oriya
Tamil
Telugu
Kannada
Malayalam
Sinhala
Thai
Lao
Tibetan
Myanmar
Georgian
Hangul
Ethiopic
Cherokee
Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
Khmer
Mongolian
Han (Japanese, Chinese, Korean ideographs)
Hiragana
Katakana
Yi

What about emojis?

Good question. Emojis are also Unicode characters, which means you can include them in your messages as well. We wanted to make it as easy as possible for you to find your favourite emoji too, so we created a master list of useful emojis which can you can use for your business. We also narrowed it down in case you want something seasonal.