"characters selected" feature in status bar shows number of characters depending on bytes and not actual characters. Lets consider an UTF-8 encoded Russian string Иосиф Сталин (Joseph Stalin). If we select this string in pn then it shows "23 characters selected". Whereas these are only 12 characters(11 Russian + 1 space) with size 23 bytes. This would most probably happen for other encoding also.
"characters selected" feature in status bar shows number of characters depending on bytes and not actual characters. Lets consider an UTF-8 encoded Russian string Иосиф Сталин (Joseph Stalin). If we select this string in pn then it shows "23 characters selected". Whereas these are only 12 characters(11 Russian + 1 space) with size 23 bytes. This would most probably happen for other encoding also.