How long is the VMS

[ReneZ]

There is no single answer.

There are of course variations, depending on the corpus, but for an approximate statement it is sufficient in any case.

The character count using Eva is 194,570

Not too far away, is it?

I'm an engineer :-)  so apart from having a number I also want to give an indication of its accuracy or reliability.

The statement

The VMS has 37886 words and 191545 letters (EVA)

to me gives the wrong impression of accuracy and reliability, that's why I answered.

One could say: "the VMs has approximately 192,000 characters", and then it is approximately right.
Now given that the GC transliteration represents things like ch and cTh as single characters, its count is likely to be more representative. The GC transliteration is also more complete.
Its count is just under 159,000 which is a very different number.

I have a draft definition of a common alphabet that is a superset of all existing alphabets. This allows a direct comparison of all transliterations (quite useful).

In this system, I have the following character counts of the three most complete (published) transliterations:

TT: 155,272
GC: 157,089
ZL:  157,202

The GC and ZL counts are within 0.1% of each other, and the main difference is that GC missed a part of one of the large circles on the Rosettes page. (This was not easy to detect before, but very easy with the use of the common alphabet).

I hope to publish all this soon, but there's too little time for all these interesting things...