How to Count Characters in a Text
Published September 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Character limits show up everywhere — tweet length, meta descriptions, form fields — and counting by eye isn't practical. This tool gives you an exact count broken down several useful ways.
Try Character CounterSteps
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Open the Character Counter tool
Go to the character counter.
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Paste your text
Paste the content you need to check.
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Review the count
See total characters, characters excluding spaces, line count, and the UTF-8 byte size.
Frequently asked questions
Some limits (like certain database fields or SMS encoding) are measured in bytes, not characters, and multi-byte characters like emoji or non-Latin scripts take up more than one byte each in UTF-8 — the byte count catches that difference.
Both a full count including spaces and a count excluding them are shown, along with a separate line count.
Yes — character counting correctly handles Unicode text, including emoji and non-Latin scripts, rather than just counting raw bytes as characters.
Because the count updates instantly, this is a quick way to check you're within a character limit before submitting a form or posting content.