Interesting.

Is that for traditional or simplified chinese or both? (yeah I know I don't have a clue, you gotta tell me all about it!)

Also are there spaces and/or punctuation? (Those won't count as words I guess).

Yes, the same rule applies to both traditional and simplified Chinese.

Spaces and punctuations should not be counted as words.

You can see what I meant here: http://www.bauhiniatech.com/blogs/ Posts in English show the correct word count, but if the posts are in Chinese the word/character count is incorrect.

I'm noticing the same issue with my japanese posts.

With english posts, I'm seeing an accurate word count, but in Japanese, they are VERY inaccurate. I'll have posts that say there is only 1 word or maybe 5 words when the post is actually many lines long.

LoKa320 wrote:

I'm noticing the same issue with my japanese posts.

With english posts, I'm seeing an accurate word count, but in Japanese, they are VERY inaccurate. I'll have posts that say there is only 1 word or maybe 5 words when the post is actually many lines long.

I have a chinese blog and encount the same problem. LoKa320 found irregular word count. But actually it counted right because it counted english word only. if you have one english word and lots of japanese in a post, the word count will return 1. two english words, return 2; etc.

don't know how about other locales. So it, the word count, should really be named english word count, or something else.

if not counting words,how about a byte-count?
:oops:

yeah I just posted the same problem for Kurdish Language...
that uses UTF-8 too , and word coutn does'nt work for kurdish words

http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=2921

and nirther do the Search box ..

do search box works for Chinnes Lanuage ?