Selected UTF-8 characters show invalid number of characters

[nikhilmahale]

"characters selected" feature in status bar shows number of characters depending on bytes and not actual characters. Lets consider an UTF-8 encoded Russian string Иосиф Сталин (Joseph Stalin). If we select this string in pn then it shows "23 characters selected". Whereas these are only 12 characters(11 Russian + 1 space) with size 23 bytes. This would most probably happen for other encoding also.