• EUC-KR: Counts 1 Korean/Chinese character as 2 bytes. Often used by older corporate systems.
• UTF-8: Counts 1 Korean/Chinese character as 3 bytes. This is the modern web standard used by platforms like Google, Naver, and Kakao.
Words are counted based on whitespace or line breaks separating text chunks. This is an essential metric for English essays, academic papers, and SEO optimization (e.g., verifying a 1,000-word criteria).
Setting a target limit activates a visual progress bar and dynamic report, highlighting exactly how many characters or bytes you have left or exceeded. This makes precise editing and proofreading much more efficient.