Calculate how many SMS segments your message needs and what it costs to send at scale.
Characters like € { } [ ] ~ ^ | count as 2.
One billed text of up to 160 GSM-7 or 70 Unicode characters; longer messages are split.
Avoid emoji and non-GSM characters, and keep it under 160.
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