<p>There is not such a thing, probably because, as has been explained before, nobody can agree on what a "column" is, bytes, code points, glyphs, pixels?  The Scintilla definition used for the status bar is "code points, except for tabs. which can be multiple columns to reach a multiple of the tab width".</p>

<p>But that may not match the definition of "column" from another tool, so its only useful for ASCII or non-combining characters Unicode, and then only when the width of tabs is also agreed.</p>

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