Hi, I’m trying the $page->text()->excerpt(100, 'words') on a field and it’s working partially / have a strange behaviour. Words are sometimes cutted in the middle ( I try precisely to avoid with “words” instead of “characters” method) and on some field the 10 word limit cut at 7 for example. How …

Kirby uses the native str_word_count() function internally. It doesn’t just split by whitespace, but for example the string fri3nd becomes fri and nd according to the PHP docs. Could you please post a few examples where it breaks for you?

Unfortunatelly I can’t as it’s a confidential project for the moment, but the words are just plain alpha characters, not even accentuated or with diacritics (like architect) I can’t figured out what’s the problem.

OK. But then you can maybe create similar non-sense strings that also fail?

Ok I picked up some dummy text on wikipedia and the problem is still here: Raw text: Donkey Kong Country (DKC, Super Donkey Kong au Japon) est un jeu de plates-formes développé par Rare et édité par Nintendo à partir de novembre en 1994 sur Super Nintendo. Premier jeu de la série Donkey Kong Coun…

Yep I was doing it when you posted.

Also sometimes the last space is included, sometimes not, which is problematic as the ellipsis is sometimes just next last words and sometimes after a space.

[image] judbd: Donkey Kong Country (DKC, Super Donkey Kong au Japon) est un jeu de plates-formes développé par Rare et édité par Nintendo à partir de novembre en 1994 sur Super Nintendo. Premier jeu de la série Donkey Kong Country, il met en scène les personnages de Donkey Kong et de It’s str…

Part of the problem here is that the word count gets wrong whenever a character with diacritics appears, e.g. scène etc. The second problem related to that is, that the position of the string gets wrong as well. That explains why sometimes there is an empty space, sometimes some letters etc. This …

I have thought that diacritics may cause problems but other texts have diacritics and the count is right so I dismissed it. Good find !

If the problem remains, there are alternatives. [image] PHP: Cut your excerpt off at the word using strrpos | MarTech PHP: Cut your excerpt off at the word using strrpos by Douglas Karr on MarTech [Goro] Excerpt without cuting the word …

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Hi, I have the same problem using excerpt(words) any news about this issue?

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