I was measuring the character length of a line using the ‘line:column’ indicator in the bottom left corner of a TM 2 window until I had a reason to doubt its accuracy. I used the count words command to confirm. I have a line with 153 characters, and the ‘line:column’ indicator reads ‘157’ with the cursor at the end (which I would expect to mean there are 156 characters before the cursor). See attached. Why might this be?
On Tue, February 18, 2014 9:53 am, Quinn Comendant wrote:
I was measuring the character length of a line using the âline:columnâ indicator in the bottom left corner of a TM 2 window until I had a reason to doubt its accuracy. I used the count words command to confirm. I have a line with 153 characters, and the âline:columnâ indicator reads â157â with the cursor at the end (which I would expect to mean there are 156 characters before the cursor). See attached. Why might this be?
It's the accents. The indicator at the bottom left corner is counting the accents as individual characters (so, an accent over an e is two characters, the accent and the e). m.
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