Re: Character counter?

[Doug Ewell]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Characters in a UTF-8 stream? In a UTF-16 stream? Characters in the
> sense of abstract characters in the Unicode CCS? Characters in the
> sense of graphemes of some particular language?

Whoops, somehow this reminded me of another consideration.  What about
combining characters (marked as NSM)?  Do these count, for purposes of
the character-counting application under discussion, as separate
characters?

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California