A curious phenomenon...
Jul. 21st, 2013 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpSo I've got this Word document created by FineReader, see? And I do what I usually do to get a word count, see?
And I get a word count that's only slightly smaller than the number of characters in the file!
This cannot be, think I to myself, and prove it by highlighting a paragraph and getting roughly the same result (the word count approximates the character count).
I eventually solve the problem by changing the text font from Arial Unicode MS to just plain vanilla Arial, but if I create a new file and then format text using Arial Unicode MS, the word count is completely normal.
Apparently, whatever it was about the text that caused the problem with the word counting function got blitzed when I changed the font.
Mysteries will never cease, at least as long as I keep using computers.
And I get a word count that's only slightly smaller than the number of characters in the file!
This cannot be, think I to myself, and prove it by highlighting a paragraph and getting roughly the same result (the word count approximates the character count).
I eventually solve the problem by changing the text font from Arial Unicode MS to just plain vanilla Arial, but if I create a new file and then format text using Arial Unicode MS, the word count is completely normal.
Apparently, whatever it was about the text that caused the problem with the word counting function got blitzed when I changed the font.
Mysteries will never cease, at least as long as I keep using computers.
