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 nostr:npub1r8wchrrhdejq54vx9u7rd8s925lr8l0h8qlhcclvgc6nk75hvk8sxdjkay nostr:npub1vdfzcjd8h0sjmvyd6tzeuuz00uj68qv5zdmehxvha0j6ffgm9jhqqgaxnp And languages like Elixir are about the only ones that could get proper character counts in the standard library.

Because you need to grab something like icu, which for system languages or core scripting languages (sh, perl, …) wouldn't be an option for their standard library (but definitely could for the extended standard library and I'd say should).