How to count characters of other langauges in edittext <p>I am trying to count Unicode characters like Arabic or Chinese in a edittext. I manage to count normal characters using this example: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/a/9867992/1282492">http://stackoverflow.com/a/9867992/1282492</a></p> <p>I want to limit normal characters to 160 and Unicode characters to 80, is there anyway i can do this?</p>