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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-70796

Moodle word count does not match other software

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      This follows on from MDL-46256.

      It seems that all other systems have a consensus about how many words there are in tricky strings like

      4+4=8 i.e. O(1) a,b,c,d I'm black&blue_really

      All of

      • Microsoft Word
      • Libre office
      • The OU's custom word-count atto plugin, which does the counting in JavaScript
      • https://wordcounter.net/ (which I just found as the top hit on a Google search)

      Consider the above string to be 6 words. Moodle does not. I think we should bring Moodle in line.

      Because people who use mod_assign are the ones most likely affected by a change here, I posted in the Assign forum: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=417795

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