diff --git a/experiments/multilingual_model_ehri/heatmaps_of_alphabet_distribution/count_characters.py b/experiments/multilingual_model_ehri/heatmaps_of_alphabet_distribution/count_characters.py
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+#!/usr/local/bin/python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+def count_characters(text):
+    # Create an empty dictionary to store character occurrences
+    char_count = {}
+
+    # Iterate through each character in the text
+    for char in text:
+        # Check if the character is already in the dictionary
+        if char in char_count:
+            # If it is, increment the count
+            char_count[char] += 1
+        else:
+            # If it's not, add it to the dictionary with a count of 1
+            char_count[char] = 1
+
+    # Print the character occurrences
+    for char, count in char_count.items():
+        print(f"'{char}' = {count}")
+
+text_to_read = #Content of the text from which characters will be counted
+count_characters(text_to_read)
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