<p>In V1.5 this has been increased to 42K but your message will be pruned after 14 days leaving only its hash. You can still store permanent messages 1000 bytes long but this is likely to be reduced in the future.</p>

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2015-05-23T06:41:50.610Z
2015-05-23T06:41:50.610Z
lyaffe
<p>Right now it's 1000 bytes. Text is converted into bytes by using UTF-8 encoding.</p>

<p>Don't hardcode this limit, use "maxArbitraryMessageLength" parameter returned by "getConstants" API request.</p>

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2014-08-26T16:22:51.440Z
2014-08-26T16:22:51.440Z
Come-from-Beyond
<p>I'm looking to see whats the limit of characters a nxt message can contain.</p>

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What is the maximum character length when sending a NXT message?
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# What is the maximum character length when sending a NXT message?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-08-25)

I'm looking to see whats the limit of characters a nxt message can contain.

**Tags:** nxt


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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2015-05-23. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

In V1.5 this has been increased to 42K but your message will be pruned after 14 days leaving only its hash. You can still store permanent messages 1000 bytes long but this is likely to be reduced in the future.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2014-08-26. Score: 2

Right now it's 1000 bytes. Text is converted into bytes by using UTF-8 encoding.

Don't hardcode this limit, use "maxArbitraryMessageLength" parameter returned by "getConstants" API request.


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