Ah, the counter has to be explicitly enabled which is not obvious at all. The second part of my comment still stands though.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to messaging-app in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278790 Title: [Messaging] Show number of characters used and number of messages to send Status in Canonical System Image: Fix Committed Status in Ubuntu UX: Triaged Status in messaging-app package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: As many carriers charge per text message sent, it'd be nice to show how many characters were used for the message, so the sender knows how many sent text messages this boils down to. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1278790/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp