Character counter
Paste your text to count characters with and without spaces, words, lines and bytes as you type.
- Characters
- Without spaces
- Words
- Lines
- UTF-8 bytes
- Double-byte countASCII 1 · others 2
How to use
- Paste or type your text into the box.
- Characters with and without spaces, words, lines and bytes update instantly below.
- Bytes are shown two ways: UTF-8 (the size on the web and in files) and a double-byte count where every non-ASCII character is 2 bytes.
- Press Share link to send the same text to someone else (up to 1,000 characters).
FAQ
What is the difference between “with spaces” and “without spaces”?
With spaces counts every character, including spaces, tabs and line breaks. Without spaces leaves out all whitespace characters. Each line break counts as one character.
How are bytes counted?
In UTF-8, ASCII letters, digits and symbols take 1 byte, most accented letters 2 bytes, Korean, Chinese and Japanese characters 3 bytes, and most emoji 4 bytes. The double-byte count treats ASCII as 1 byte and every other character as 2 bytes.
How are emoji counted?
By what you see as one character, so an emoji with a skin tone such as 👍🏽 counts as 1. The byte counts include every code point it is made of.
Is my text sent to a server?
No. Counting happens entirely in your browser and nothing is stored or uploaded. If you press Share link, the text is put inside the link itself, so do not share anything private.
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