Why does wc increase character count by 1 ?

[mfv]

> On Sat, 2017-09-09 at 20:05 Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>
> wrote:
>
>On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 14:22:10 -0400
>mfv via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Use "echo -n" to NOT count the new line.  
>
>	s/count/produce/
>

Hello,

Yes, indeed.  That is a significant distinction.

Cheers ...

Marek