5.6 Frequency count of characters

A device may be used to obtain a list of characters in a file, and how many times each character appears. Each count is followed by the UCS-2 value of the character and, when known, the RFC 1345 mnemonic for that character.

This charset is available in Recode under the name count-characters.

This count feature has been implemented as a charset. This may change in some later version, as it would sometimes be convenient to count original bytes, instead of their UCS-2 equivalent.