<p>The column counts in glyphs, the selection counts in octets.  You do not provide information on what the second entity is, so I'm assuming its code point 1d41a, which has a four octet encoding in UTF-8 which is what the buffer uses.</p>

<p>The manual should be updated to not describe the selection as "characters" since that only applys to ASCII. </p>

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