Title: admin-columns word count problem with UTF-8 / mbstring
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# admin-columns word count problem with UTF-8 / mbstring

 *  Resolved [hitking](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hitking/)
 * (@hitking)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mbstring/)
 * Hi
 * Thank you for your great plugins.
 * Unfortunately the word count column doesn’t work properly on UTF-8 words. is 
   it possible to help to use mbstring function instead of default ascii base to
   make word count work on UTF-8 characters?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/codepress-admin-columns/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/codepress-admin-columns/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Jesper van Engelen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engelen/)
 * (@engelen)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mbstring/#post-5496483)
 * Heya! Could you send us example text on which the column fails? From there, we
   can work on a solution!
 *  Thread Starter [hitking](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hitking/)
 * (@hitking)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mbstring/#post-5496484)
 * Thank you for your response.
 * Here is the sample text:
 * این یک متن آزمایشی است که شامل 10 کلمه است.
 * the sentence contain 10 words.
 * I know for counting UTF-8 Characters and Words you should use mbstring function.
   maybe it can help you to fix it.
 *  Plugin Author [Jesper van Engelen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engelen/)
 * (@engelen)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mbstring/#post-5496502)
 * We’ve fixed this issue; the fix will be part of the next release. This topic 
   is about the same issue as [this topic](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-value-for-word-count?replies=9),
   in which we’ll keep you posted about the update. I’ll mark this topic as resolved!

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 * Last reply from: [Jesper van Engelen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engelen/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mbstring/#post-5496502)
 * Status: resolved