Count Unicode characters more accurately

This treats emoji like 🦊 as one instead of two characters. Still not perfect, but hopefully close enough. https://dev.to/coolgoose/quick-and-easy-way-of-counting-utf-8-characters-in-javascript-23ce
2023-01-16 21:45:33 +01:00 · 2023-01-16 21:45:33 +01:00 · 00993cff25
parent 184e579d78
commit 00993cff25
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/script.js
+++ b/script.js
@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ function update(statusBar, textArea) {
        qualifier = "in selection";
    }

-    let charCount = text.trim().length;
+    let charCount = [...text.trim()].length;
    let wordCount = countWords(text);
    statusBar.innerText = `${charCount} characters　${wordCount} words　${qualifier}`;