Editing Count number of characters (section)

== Character Count vs. Byte Count Comparison ==
<table border="1" class="wikitable sortable">
<tr>
<th>String example</th>
<th>Number of characters</th>
<th>Number of bytes</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>fox</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog</td>
<td>43</td>
<td>43</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>狐</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>象</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>🐘</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>敏捷的棕毛狐狸從懶狗身上躍過</td>
<td>14</td>
<td>42</td>
</tr>
</table>

: [[Image:Owl icon.jpg]] Each Chinese character is approximately 3 bytes in UTF-8

Common Chinese characters (CJK Unified Ideographs, U+4E00 ~ U+9FFF) are all 3 bytes — for example, "你", "好", "狐", and "象". Characters beyond U+FFFF (outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, BMP<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(Unicode) Plane (Unicode) - Wikipedia]</ref>) take 4 bytes. These are mostly rare characters from CJK Extension B (U+20000 and up)<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs_Extension_B CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B - Wikipedia]</ref>, such as "[https://www.cns11643.gov.tw/wordView.jsp?ID=993142 𤆬]" (U+241AC) and "[https://www.cns11643.gov.tw/wordView.jsp?ID=402472 𠮷]" (U+20BB7).