I think is because punctuation symbols are separate unicode characters that are collapsed into the first preceding non-Mark character.
Example: ד ָ דָ
So if you want to count the visible characters, you need to account for the marks.
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I think is because punctuation symbols are separate unicode characters that are collapsed into the first preceding non-Mark character.
Example: ד ָ דָ
So if you want to count the visible characters, you need to account for the marks.