Character count limit indicator- when posting

[Flipp]

Hi there

Firstly, I'm not sure whether this forum will be the right place to post, but wanted to try first since I used SMF/Tinyportal.

After a bit of searching I can't find the answer to the problem I'm trying to solve; if it's already been posted, then please point me to it

Here's the problem
It's not that often, but with World of Warcraft fan sites, some people like to post the next game's patch notes and then discuss them.

I have a post character limit set to something like 5000 characters. I'm not sure if that includes the underlying code, e.g.

This is bold = 12 characters (includes spaces)

whereas

This is bold = 19 characters, spaces + underlying code for BBC

When people post the patch notes, they're often way over the post character limit, but there's no indication of when you approach that limit. So, you have to keep deleting text until the post will finally be accepted.

My question then
Is there an add-on/mod to add a character count remaining indicator to the post?


Now, someone's going to tell me it's already available via some setting 

[IchBin]

Now, someone's going to tell me it's already available via some setting 

Nope, but I'll tell you that SMF will more likely have your answer than TinyPortal.

[Ken.]

Did a quick search on SMF and it seems that the only solution is to use a text editor that will count your character's.

Doing a more detailed search might turn up a better answer.

[Flipp]

Thanks

Part of my search problem was knowing what to search on, I was trying a combination of 'limit' and 'character'.

Seems the post editor itself may be the way to resolve this. I'll try posting to SMF too.