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Word counting scheme

TRADOS uses a more simplistic word counting mechanism than WorldServer. It does not have a middle word character concept and counts contractions and hyphenated words as separate words. TRADOS also has a different number counting scheme. It counts numbers the same way as words if a segment has at least one word. Numbers in number-only segments are not counted. These differences cause a higher word count by TRADOS in comparison to WorldServer.

At the same time, TRADOS does not break words on the ‘_’ character and considers strings separated by ‘_’ as a single word. TRADOS is not consistent in counting numbers separated by markup. In some cases the numbers are counted and in some cases they are not. These changes might result lower word count for TRADOS in comparison to WorldServer.

These differences generally result in different word counts between WorldServer and TRADOS, as illustrated in the following table:

 WorldServer countTRADOS count
I’ve learned word-breaking.35
He is 5-6 feet tall.45
The password is I_AM_BAD.64
<b>Number of items:</b> 24.33
<b>Number of items:</b> 24 (approx).45