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HTML
<textarea id="myinput"></textarea>
<div id="charcount"></div>
CSS
textarea {
width:400px;
height:100px;
}
JavaScript
var charCount = $('#charcount')
$('#myinput').keyup(function () {
var text = this.value;
var isChinese = /[^\x00-\x80]+/
var step = isChinese.test(text) ? 60 : 152;
charCount.text('We will deduct '+ ~~(1 + ((text.length - 1) / step)) +' credit for this message per contact. Characters: '+text.length);
})