<p><a href="https://github.com/codebrainz" class="user-mention">@codebrainz</a> yeah, Geany shows the scintilla selection count, which is the position (ie byte) difference between the anchor and the cursor.</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/lep42" class="user-mention">@lep42</a> the "column" count is actually a glyph count, so it may not agree with the code point count for double wide Unicode characters or for combining characters where two code points makes one glyph, eg u<br>
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<p>Unless you use purely ASCII</p>

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