Index: wp-admin/js/word-count.dev.js
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--- wp-admin/js/word-count.dev.js	(revision 20205)
+++ wp-admin/js/word-count.dev.js	(working copy)
@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@
 		settings : {
 			strip : /<[a-zA-Z\/][^<>]*>/g, // strip HTML tags
 			clean : /[0-9.(),;:!?%#$¿'"_+=\\/-]+/g, // regexp to remove punctuation, etc.
-			w : /\S\s+/g, // word-counting regexp
-			c : /\S/g // char-counting regexp for asian languages
+			count : /\S\s+/g, // word-counting regexp
 		},
 
 		block : 0,
@@ -25,9 +24,16 @@
 
 			setTimeout( function() {
 				if ( tx ) {
-					tx = tx.replace( t.settings.strip, ' ' ).replace( /&nbsp;|&#160;/gi, ' ' );
-					tx = tx.replace( t.settings.clean, '' );
-					tx.replace( t.settings[type], function(){tc++;} );
+					if ( type == 'w' ) { // word-counting
+						tx = tx.replace( t.settings.strip, ' ' ).replace( /&nbsp;|&#160;/gi, ' ' );
+						tx = tx.replace( t.settings.clean, '' );
+						tx.replace( t.settings.count, function(){tc++;} );
+					}
+					else if ( type == 'c' ) { // char-counting for asian languages
+						tx = tx.replace( t.settings.strip, '' ).replace( /^ +| +$/gm, '' );
+						tx = tx.replace( / +|&nbsp;|&#160;/gi, ' ' );
+						tx.replace( /[\S \u00A0\u3000]/g, function(){tc++;} );
+					}
 				}
 				w.html(tc.toString());