On 17.11.2004, at 23:47, Allan Odgaard wrote:
Ah, that's true. You could pipe the text through e.g.: “iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1//TRANSLIT” then the character count should be correct.
Works fine with that command. Just remember that the character count includes the spaces, which might or might not be what you want.
Cheers, Jarkko
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