Character Counter

What each of the four counts includes

Punctuation is never removed from either character total: the comma, the exclamation mark and the question mark in the example are three of the 22 non-space characters.

Line breaks and trailing newlines

Lines are counted by splitting on the newline character, so a text that ends with a line break reports one more line than you might expect: 'Hello world' followed by Enter shows 2 lines, 12 characters with spaces and 10 without. Three blank lines between two words produce 4 lines and 4 characters of whitespace.

Text copied from Windows programs sometimes carries a carriage return before each newline. Both characters are included in the With spaces total, and both are stripped from the Without spaces total, because the carriage return is whitespace too.

Emoji and accented letters

Counting is done in UTF-16 code units, the way JavaScript measures strings. For the Latin alphabet, digits and common punctuation that is one unit per character, but anything outside the Basic Multilingual Plane takes two units, and composed sequences take more.

Platforms do not all count this way. Some count a whole emoji as one character, others as two, and some weight East Asian scripts double. For a hard limit on a specific site, treat this count as the upper bound and test the real field.

Character limits worth knowing

Title tags and meta descriptions are cut by pixel width rather than a fixed count, so the usual advice of about 60 and 155 characters is a guideline, not a rule enforced by the counter.

When the without-spaces figure matters

• Translation and transcription agencies sometimes price per 1,000 characters without spaces, a common convention in European markets.
• Some school assignments and legal forms set a limit excluding spaces, which is usually about 15 to 18 percent lower than the with-spaces count for English prose.
• Password and username fields reject spaces entirely, so the without-spaces figure is the one that has to fit.