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> I have yet to encounter a case where a "character" count is useful.

Well, if an an editor the user tries to move forward three characters,
you probably want to increment a character count (an offset from
the beginning of the string).  

(No, I don't know how dealing with glyphs instead of just characters
adds to that.)

Daniel
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