Words Count

Words count for multi-languages paragraph mixed with numbers and punctuation.
One rule apply to all.

See Test Case

Install
--
``
npm i words-count
`

Example
--
`
import wordsCount from 'words-count';
// const wordsCount = require('words-count').default;

console.log(wordsCount('Hello World'));
`

Why use this
--
words_to_be_count = 'Hello “世界”';
words-count.js -> 3

words_to_be_count.length -> 10
words_to_be_count.split(' ').length -> 2
Countable.js -> 2
PHP str_word_count(words_to_be_count) -> 1
PHP mb_strlen(words_to_be_count) -> 10
Office Word -> 5

Special Rule
--
Numbers count as 1 word

Configs
--
`
const words = "Some words ...";

// Treat punctuation as word breaker
const total = wordsCount(words, {
punctuationAsBreaker: true
});

// Treat more characters as punctuation
const total = wordsCount(words, {
punctuation: ['-', 'a', 'b']
});

// Disable default built-in punctuation list
const total = wordsCount(words, {
disableDefaultPunctuation: true
});
`

Words Split
--
`
const words = "Some words ...";
const { wordsSplit, wordsDetect } = require('words-count');

const splittedWords = wordsSplit(words);
const { words, count } = wordsDetect(words);
``

Test Case
--
Test cases are based on best assumption.
Original Content:
Google's free service instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages.
Basic Test Content:
Translate original content into target language by Google Translate.
Test Case Coverage:
English, Chinese, Chinese-Traditional, Japanese, Korean, French, German,
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Arabic, Hebrew, Afrikaans,
Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali,
Bulgarian, Bosnian, Catalan, Cebuano, Croatian, Chichewa, Corsican, Czech,
Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Frisian, Greek, Galician,
Georgian, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic,
Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Latin,
Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam,
Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh
Zulu, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Scots Gaelic, Sesotho,
Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Somali, Sundanese, Swahili, Tajik, Turkish,
Urdu, uzbek, Vietnamese, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba
Failed/Unknown:
Hawalian, Khmer, Lao, Maltese, Myanmar, Tamil, Thai

Reference
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http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-word-count.php#109733
https://www.key-shortcut.com/en/writing-systems/%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97-chinese-cjk/cjk-characters-1/
http://jrgraphix.net/r/Unicode/0D00-0D7F