Improve Word Count Support For Non-Latin Characters (e.g. Asian characters) Potentially by Showing Character Count
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Improve Word Count Support For Non-Latin Characters (e.g. Asian characters) Potentially by Showing Character Count
Feature Upgrade · Articles & templates · Created by Harold.W
accepted
Article Word-Count
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Article word count is currently incorrect for languages like Chinese (I don't know other non-Latin languages thus unable to provide more examples). The counted number is much lower than the actual one. After I've written over 5K Chinese characters/words, the world word count is only 1.5K. For instance, article with content of "中文1 中文2 English1 English2" is counted as 2 words in WorldAnvil, while in MS Word, it has:- 8 words ("中文1 中文2" counts as 6 words)
- 22 characters without space
- 4 Asian characters ("中" x 2 and ”文")
How does this feature request address the current situation?
Word count is an extremely useful feature in WorldAnvil. Not being able to use it when writing articles in unsupported languages is a huge pain. One potential mitigation is probably to also display or allow switching between word and character count. At least in my use case, being able to see character count is an acceptable state, since it pretty much gives the correct number when the whole article is in Chinese.What are other uses for this feature request?
I don't speak other languages that have the similar issue but I would guess at least Japanese and Korean are likely to face the same problem.Follow up
Addressing a question in the votes: > the MSWord result looks inflated? Shouldn't it output 4? It doesn't. The common way of counting "words" of text in Chinese is counting "characters", since there's no space between Chinese "words". The "8 words" result from MSWord is by counting Chinese characters and English words separately, which is accurate. That said, I don't know the complexity of reaching this level of accuracy. But being able to just see the character count in addition to the existing word count can be also very helpful (hopefully this is less difficult to implement).
The Team's Response
Partially accepted! We won't add a wordcount for writing systems not currently supported at this point, but we will add a character counter that will support them. Thanks for the suggestion!
Current score
35/300 Votes · +5400 points
Votes Cast
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+100
by A Revolutionary Mlem
on 2023-06-19 22:30 -
-300
by A Uncontrollable Kobold
on 2023-06-19 16:54Word count seems like such a non issue and a waste of dev time.
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-1
by A Rambunctious Velociraptor
on 2023-06-18 21:46Putting any level of focus on word count feels kinda toxic to me...
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+300
by gcjones216
on 2023-06-18 16:42 -
+300
by Athevra
on 2023-06-16 23:32 -
+300
by morganarcher
on 2023-06-14 01:51 -
+100
by JRLoving
on 2023-06-13 22:24 -
+300
by InformationMagpie
on 2023-06-13 16:09 -
+300
by Mochimanoban
on 2023-06-10 13:58 -
+300
by A Roaring Unicorn
on 2023-06-10 03:50 -
+300
by EBJ
on 2023-06-09 23:09 -
+300
by cow2face
on 2023-06-09 07:08 -
+100
by LoreParmenter
on 2023-06-08 18:51 -
+300
by A Beloved Elf
on 2023-06-08 17:36 -
-1
by A Beloved Mimic
on 2023-06-08 10:18 -
+300
by barriesaxxy
on 2023-06-08 06:22World Anvil is international. Makes sense to maximize support for non-English languages.
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+300
by illumiinae
on 2023-06-07 20:59 -
+100
by Rilameth
on 2023-06-07 17:33 -
+100
by Michael Chandra
on 2023-06-06 05:20Since WorldEmber requires 51+ words and Summercamp 300+, I agree that counting entire sentences as a single word does sound limiting.
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+1
by storyauthor
on 2023-06-06 04:48 -
+300
by Dalf32
on 2023-06-06 01:16 -
+100
by FrostFortyTwo
on 2023-06-05 14:04 -
-300
by jorre998
on 2023-06-05 11:44 -
+1
by A Rambunctious Cthulhu
on 2023-06-05 09:59Considering that word count is often used as part of challenges, making sure it works well for all languages/alphabets just makes sense. (plus it's overall just a useful feature)
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+300
by A Revolutionary Goblin
on 2023-06-04 16:57 -
-100
by A Cute Kitten
on 2023-06-04 16:45Not sure why word count would be important to anyone. The exact number of words means literally nothing vs. quality or what you actually want to say. This kinda seems like a waste of dev time and effort. Sorry.
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+100
by Alishahr
on 2023-06-04 12:14 -
+1
by A Enfeebled T-Rex
on 2023-06-04 09:50 -
+100
by Willow H.R. Harper
on 2023-06-04 08:21 -
+300
by Angantyr
on 2023-06-04 07:00Adding support to non-Latin-alphabet-based languages could be a step towards helping users, so I'm all hands for. I'm curious as to how the current system works — it doesn't seem like a simple split on whitespace characters. Still, the MSWord result looks inflated? Shouldn't it output 4?
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+300
by Matunas
on 2023-06-04 02:36 -
+100
by UnknownWriter88
on 2023-06-04 01:28this would be good for all language characters, not just Asian; ancient and modern alike.
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+300
by BasicDragon
on 2023-06-04 00:22 -
-1
by A Frightened Mlem
on 2023-06-03 22:31couldn't care less even if i tried
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+100
by A Mischievous Goblin
on 2023-06-03 22:23I believe WorldAnvil also has difficulty with Cyrillic. This would be a great addition, just for the inclusivity of it. You are not the first to ask about this.
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+300
by Harold.W
on 2023-06-03 22:13
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