{"id":18988588,"date":"2026-08-09T15:29:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T15:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/broken-wordcount-for-arabic\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T15:29:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T15:29:41","slug":"broken-wordcount-for-arabic","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/broken-wordcount-for-arabic\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken @WordCount for Arabic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordCount Calculation for Non-Latin \/ Multibyte Languages (e.g., Arabic)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Data::collect()<\/strong> uses PHP\u2019s built-in <strong>str_word_count()<\/strong>, which is not Unicode-aware and fails when processing non-Latin scripts (e.g., it reports only 44 words instead of ~997 words for a 9,926-character Arabic post).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Suggested Fix:<br \/><\/strong>Replace <strong>str_word_count()<\/strong> with a robust regex pattern or <strong>mb_<\/strong> functions that support Unicode properties (<strong>\\p{L} \/ \\p{N}<\/strong>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy to test a beta build or provide further context if needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Best regards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18988588","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18988588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18988588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18988588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}