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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
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Kianga 2023-01-16 21:45:33 +01:00
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@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ function update(statusBar, textArea) {
qualifier = "in selection"; qualifier = "in selection";
} }
let charCount = text.trim().length; let charCount = [...text.trim()].length;
let wordCount = countWords(text); let wordCount = countWords(text);
statusBar.innerText = `${charCount} characters　${wordCount} words　${qualifier}`; statusBar.innerText = `${charCount} characters　${wordCount} words　${qualifier}`;