If someone writes with improper spacing, word count will fail for examples like these: bla?bla? Hello.Bye. These are counted as one word in each line, which is not how a person would count them. I've found this problem when auditing texts for a short-stories contest, leading to possible disqualification. Other editors (google docs, abiword, gedit) report the (human) expectation. Second hand reports tell me that Microsoft Word behaves as Libre Office, I don't have one to check.
(In reply to mosteo from comment #0) > Other editors (google docs, abiword, gedit) report the (human) expectation. > Second hand reports tell me that Microsoft Word behaves as Libre Office, I > don't have one to check. I guess this a sound argument. Let's set to NEW and hope for the best. Changed to enhancement as well.
Created attachment 177807 [details] ten words that are counted as seven Still the case in: Version: 7.3.0.2 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: f1c9017ac60ecca268da7b1cf147b10e244b9b21 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded