Number of characters with spaces of the translated file?

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How can I count the number of characters with spaces of the translated file? 
 Thank you in advance 
 Carmen

Paul · Answer

Hi Carmen, 
 
There is no target count in Studio, so the easiest way is to analyse the target file in Studio. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Hi Carmen, 
 No it doesn't... but there is an app on the OpenExchange called StudioInQuote which allows you to report with standard lines. This gives you the ability to report keystrokes, which is essentially character count plus spaces. 
 The good thing about this app is it's free and it uses the analysis from your Studio Project, and you can also customise the reporting into Word or Excel if you like so it's a format ready for use with your clients. You can find a help guide to this app here if you want to see how it works? 
 Regards 
 Paul

Paul · Answer

Hi Carmen, Most likely reason, as I came across this myself when I reminded myself how this app works are these: 1. You need to have run an analysis first, not just a wordcount, and 2. You must check the format (word, excel, clipboard) AND the template type Then you should get proper counts. See if that helps?

Paul · Answer

Hi Carmen, 
 It can count whatever you like :-) If you use this setting for example: 
 
 You can get a report showing this for example: 
 
 This is a default and a quick solution would be to make the numbers for a standard line "1". This was you would see this: 
 
 So the 3497 would be the count including spaces in this case. 
 A better solution of course would be to create your own custom template and use an appropriate field value to pull the chars directly. I have loaded the list of tokens referred to in the help to drop box too, so you may be able to create your own template with this. Having said that, something doesn't quite look right to me at the moment in how this is working so I'm going to add this to the development item we have on our list to make sure this is all working properly. Once it's done I'll write something up to explain how it all works and provide an example of how to do this. 
 In the meantime maybe you can use the workaround to get your count, or even have a play with the fields and see what you come up with. Sorry this isn't a better solution at then moment. I think this app has good potential, but needs a few loose ends tidying up. 
 Regards

Paul · Answer

Unknown said: Can the App also be used for counting Chinese characters? 
 Hi, 
 The app uses the Studio report as the basis for it's own report, so yes it can display character counts if you use the appropriate field for this. The default reports only display character counts in the standard line report mentioned in this thread but you could create your own report to only show the character count. 
 In general if Studio can do it, then so can the app. So the solution painted above for Carmen has a little addition maths in there to include spaces for the keystroke count as part of the standard line calculation, but it is using the character count as part of this. 
 Regards

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