Live character count?

I know it's possible to check your character count through the inspector in Pages, but I would much rather change the live word count in the status bar into live character count. Anybody know if it's possible?

Udo Weyers wrote:
Yvan, despite the fact that you are based in France, reading between the lines I realize a lot of british humor. And indeed we have a horn of plenty full of options. Cheers!
But you're right, we should cross the fingers ... that's basically all we can do.
Glad to read that you understood correctly.
In an other thread,
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1874507&tstart=0
the OP didn't
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 21 janvier 2009 18:26:25)

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