Word count broken for Hebrew text

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  I use Live Writer for several blogs I write, some in English, some in Hebrew. While the Word Count feature works fine for English text, it's completely broken for non-Latin characters in Hebrew text, where it counts every character as a separate word - two 4-letter words count as 8 words. This, naturally, makes the word-count somewhat useless.

  
  

  I don't know how the word-count is performed internally, but it should be relatively to use the Unicode information to distinguish between Letters, regardless of script, and non-letter whitespace which signifies a new word starting.

  
  

  Thanks,

     Avner Kashtan

  Wednesday, May 12, 2010 8:04 PM