char counting: DT vs OpenOffice

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I recently completed a job where i will be paid for the number of characters written.

DT, the software i used for the job, counts 372’522 chars but my open office counts only 369’350 (like the Word of my chief). :unamused:

Why this difference?

Thanks

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DT Pro’s character count was designed to reward profuse obfuscation. :slight_smile:

Actually, I don’t know why the character counts differ among applications, and will punt to Christian.

But I would expect that character counts of plain text should be pretty similar.

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The character count displayed in the status bar of DT’s windows counts all unicode characters (including spaces, tabs or line/page breaks).

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May i ask you to insert a new feature to better serve us professional writers?

I don’t really need to count tabs or line feed… :wink:

Maybe onto preferences screen you can to let choose which method of char counting the user wants.

Thanks!