Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-46539204-20200903222710/@comment-9605025-20200904003936

More accurately, the numbers on the contributions page (and recent changes) are the change in number of bytes from the previous version of the page. For those of use using English, this usually is the same as the number of characters. However, for languages like Chinese and Japanese or if you use something like emoticons, then a single character can actually be more than 1 byte.