https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173304
--- Comment #4 from Walter Tuvell <[email protected]> --- I'm not going to report bugs against other products, for at least 3 reasons: (i) I don't know/use them (and don't want to spend time figuring them out just for this bug); (ii) I don't care about them (I only care about LO); (iii) as you note, the list could continue ad infinitum. One thing that might well be happening is that there isn't even a standard industry-wide DEFINITION of "word," in the context of "word count of a 'text' document" (in English). And, the various product that purport to support a notion of word count don't tell us what they're counting. Proof: We/you just proved it, by looking at the sample products. For myself, I'd guess that "separated by whitespace char" would be a decent layperson's definition (if we had a good definition of "whitespace;" does Unicode define it?). But that might not be enough. In particular, in the sample text we're with, there are some zero-width space chars (ZWSP, U+200B). I know, because I put them there (to control where LO puts linebreaks. I'm attaching 2 files, WordCount.txt and WordCount.png (the second is just a screenshot of the first), per Emacs. The WordCount.txt contains the aforementioned ZWSP's. These contain the sample ΒΆ17 paragraph we're using, plus a count of the whitespace-separated "words" on each of its 6 lines. They add up to 76 words = the above layperson's definition. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
