Can anyone confirm character limit in market gifts messages?

[TheBadmagic]

I just ask because I'm new to SL, met someone who I spend a lot of time with and sent them a token gift with a message but, while filling it out it took some time to whittle it down to the permitted characters (I think it was 256) and still be legible. 

They are the one teaching me SL really and the person I would usually ask about something like this but, I guess its not drastically important, I can ask them when I see them but, the email confirmation I received shows the included message to be snipped short and, was kind of wondering as the clipped version ends quite abruptly. 

It may just be a preview of the text rather than the full content, I have no idea so hoped someone could shed some light on the matter.

Thanks in advance for any clarification. 

[valerie Inshan]

200 characters max. Spaces and punctuation are considered as characters.

[TheBadmagic]

Thank you valerie Inshan, I will keep that in mind for future gifts, I guess I was overly wordy in my initial message, as I kept retyping it once it hit the 256 at the bottom but next time I will attempt to be more succinct.