About the character counter
Characters are counted as a person would count them, using grapheme segmentation rather than a string's length. An accented letter is one character even when it is stored as two code points, and an emoji is one character even when it is stored as eleven.
That distinction matters when checking against a limit, because platforms disagree about what they count. A meta description is measured in characters, an SMS in septets or UCS-2 units, and a database column usually in bytes.
Frequently asked questions
- Is my text sent anywhere?
- No. Everything runs inside your browser. Nothing you paste or type is uploaded, stored or logged, and the page keeps working with the network disconnected.
- Why do other counters give a bigger number for the same text?
- Because they count UTF-16 code units rather than characters. Any emoji, and many scripts, count as two or more that way.
- What counts as a space?
- Spaces, tabs and line breaks all count in the total and are all excluded from the without-spaces figure.
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How your data is handled
Everything happens on your device. There is no upload, no storage and no logging. Closing the tab clears everything you entered.