From 00993cff25eaaf21693616c7e3080125b552da09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ren=C3=A9=20Puls?= <rp@kianga.eu>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 21:45:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Count Unicode characters more accurately
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

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
---
 script.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/script.js b/script.js
index d34f2c3..cc26aee 100644
--- 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}`;