Text Counters · No. 02
Count characters with and without spaces, plus letters, digits, symbols, emoji and bytes.
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Character limits are everywhere, from meta descriptions to SMS. This counter measures visible characters the way people see them, so an emoji or an accented letter counts as one, and it also reports the UTF-8 byte size for systems that limit by bytes.
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Some tools count code units, so a single emoji can register as two or more characters. We count user-perceived characters (grapheme clusters) and show the byte size separately, which gives you both views.
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