Does the "log length" statistic count words in different languages / alphabets

Question

I often use to write in two languages in one log - English and my native Bulgarian, which uses cyrillic alphabet. When looking at the statistics for log length it seems it counts only the words in English in a given log. Is that so and has it to be?

Answer 1

That is not the case. The word counter doesn't know any language at all. It counts what it believes/guesses are words. If you give us a link to a log we could check how many words that system believes that log has. It could very well be some issue with the cyrillic alphabet that we aren't aware of.

Comments

This is a log about which a Challenge checker says that it has 5 words: https://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?lid=827933788
The profile stats shows me that my shortest log with 0 words is on this event:
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6AXVY_leap-day-chicken-count-lyaskovets-29-02-16
I don't know which one it counts since I have 3 logs there but they are all in the cyrillic alphabet.
And here is one of my last logs:
https://coord.info/GL1BRKDAX

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Issues with cyrillic alphabet is confirmed. We'll need to think about how we will handle this. It's a good reproduction case for us to work with.

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There has been a fix implemented. The problem is that we need to recalculate the number of words in over a billion logs. That's a process that will take weeks of processing. It's in process though.