<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_UNCONFIRMED " title="UNCONFIRMED - Erroneous word count (for French at least)" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131557#c9">Comment # 9</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_UNCONFIRMED " title="UNCONFIRMED - Erroneous word count (for French at least)" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131557">bug 131557</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:facevedo@curisit.net" title="Francoise <facevedo@curisit.net>"> Francoise</a> <pre>(In reply to Philippe from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=131557#c7">comment #7</a>) Hello As a French user of Open Office, I totally agree with you, Philippe, the Word Count feature does not give the expected result for the French language. Word counting looks a trivial task but there are some rules in French. For example, all symbols that are not letters or numbers count for nothing: This is the case with punctuation marks (comma, period, colon, semi-colon, exclamation mark, question mark), hyphens, dashes, apostrophes, quotation marks, parentheses, and square brackets…. There is a web application that takes into account these rules: <a href="https://www.combiendemots.com/">https://www.combiendemots.com/</a> The web clearly announces to be more efficient than Word and so on than OpenOffice since it gives same results… Enhance the Word Count feature could be an interesting marketing point because there are several administrative or educational procedures that require precise word counting and may have a big impact on the user life. So It could be a great enhancement for OpenOffice to offer a tool efficient enough that French users no need to copy and paste their text to another tool.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>