For the avoidance of doubt, it's not a bug that -c counts bytes, not characters. There's a separate option for counting characters: -m https://pubs.opengroup.

For the avoidance of doubt, it's not a bug that -c counts bytes, not characters. There's a separate option for counting characters: -m https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/wc.html https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/w...