Character count - English - Ask LibreOffice

The new LO 3.6 displays a word count in the status bar. Word count is used in the USA, but not in other countries, where character count is used instead. I wonder if this behavior can be changed in the preferences, otherwise this excellent new features would risk to be useless in a considerable part of the world.

A wordcounter suited to acadamia and authoring : r/libreoffice

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