Do line breaks count as characters?

Yes — each line break is at least one character.

Character Counter

Check the exact length of your text against a limit — ideal for social posts, SMS, meta descriptions and form fields.

Characters

Characters (no spaces)

Bytes (UTF-8)

Words

Characters remaining

Within the limit

How this was worked out

How it countsEvery character is counted, including spaces, punctuation and line breaks.

Some platforms count emoji and accented characters differently because they use more than one byte.

Characters = length of the string; bytes = UTF-8 encoded size

Input

A 160 character limit

Result

Characters, no-space count, bytes and remaining

Accented characters and emoji take more than one byte in UTF-8 encoding.

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