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Originally Posted by Teyrnon
I still think word count is the best way to really gauge the length of a text.
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Do you think word count is a better gauge than character count, and if so, why?
I've already shown by example how character count works better with (some) different languages. Character count also provides for a very nice conversion factor for people still used only to page counts, since 1k characters is approximately 1 page (well, a quite small page, like in a pocket book, not like in those big hardcovers, but still).
The only reason I can think of why word count would have any advantage is the same as with page counts, namely that people currently are a bit more used to it. However, because of the nice kchar<->page conversion I wouldn't consider even this to be any advantage, since people are even more used to page counts than to word counts.