Omkar Kulkarni

I haven't seen any errors coming from this method. Is this still an issue?

@jwoglom what does this mean?

Since we already have `self.fields["description"].widget = forms.Textarea()` [here](https://github.com/tjcsl/ion/blob/master/intranet/apps/polls/forms.py#L14), we can just change that to something like shown below and create the counter client-side using Javascript. It would still be validated...

This would probably only apply to things that already use a Textarea widget, so most of the code would already be there. I was looking for a dynamic way to...

is this still an issue?

@jwoglom do you have an example of where this doesn't work?

maybe we can use https://pypi.python.org/pypi/emoji