Currently if you have a file open and move the cursor to a position somewhere in that file, the footer bar shows the line number and column number (below Ln 34, Col 0). It would be great if in that bar we could also see how many chars/bytes you have selected in the text. In other editors I often use that to quickly count how long a string or part of a string is or check for UTF8 encoding issues

Eg in the image below it would say 12 chars and/or bytes: