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Character count component counts code points, not characters #1619

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What is the issue?

This is a placeholder issue to implement a fix for alphagov/govuk-frontend#1104 in NHS.UK frontend

What steps are required to reproduce the issue?

Since Python supports counting Unicode strings we've hit issues in nhsuk-frontend-jinja with client-side max .length (JavaScript) not matching server-side len() (Python)

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