Character count on Pages iPad?

Hi to all i bought Pages to write mine review but I have found only the count of words and not for characters.
There is amethod to view them?
If not pls tell Apple to made it 'cose in journalism (in Italy) the news and alla other are order by number of character and no number of words.
IF y know ana App that do that pls tell me, txxx

Not sure if meanwhile you found a solution. Anyway, apparently there's support for character count in Pages:
http://www.rightnowintech.com/2011/11/more-word-count-options-in-pages-for.html
Ciao,
Marco

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