On Nov 17, 2004, at 10:39 PM, Ned Baldessin wrote:
Does that work with double-byte or "special" characters ? Last time I tried the character count wasn't accurate for UTF-8 encoded characters or punctuation. Thanks.
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.