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Character Counter

Measure visible characters, non-whitespace characters, code points, and UTF-8 bytes.

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Three text-length conventions

Grapheme segmentation estimates user-perceived characters, code points count Unicode scalar sequence elements, and TextEncoder reports UTF-8 byte length.

Visible characters = grapheme clusters; bytes = UTF-8 encoded length

Worked example

A combined emoji sequence

Inputs: text: Hi 👋🏽

Illustrative result: 5 graphemes · 9 code points · 11 UTF-8 bytes

The skin-tone emoji is one visible grapheme but contains multiple code points and several encoded bytes.

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Frequently asked questions

Why do character and byte counts differ?

Unicode symbols can require several bytes in UTF-8 while appearing as one visible character.

Does whitespace count?

The main count includes spaces and line breaks; a second count removes whitespace before measuring.