Index: wp-admin/js/word-count.dev.js
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--- wp-admin/js/word-count.dev.js	(revision 20709)
+++ wp-admin/js/word-count.dev.js	(working copy)
@@ -1,23 +1,21 @@
-(function($,undefined) {
+(function($) {
 	wpWordCount = {
 
 		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 // counting regexp
 		},
 
+		settingsEastAsia : {
+			count : /[\u3100-\u312F\u31A0-\u31BF\u4E00-\u9FCF\u3400-\u4DBF\uF900-\uFAFF\u2F00-\u2FDF\u2E80-\u2EFF\u31C0-\u31EF\u2FF0-\u2FFF\u1100-\u11FF\uA960-\uA97F\uD780-\uD7FF\u3130-\u318F\uFFA0-\uFFDC\uAC00-\uD7AF\u3040-\u309F\u30A0-\u30FF\u31F0-\u31FF\uFF65-\uFF9F\u3190-\u319F\uA4D0-\uA4FF\uA000-\uA48F\uA490-\uA4CF]/g
+		},
+
 		block : 0,
 
-		wc : function(tx, type) {
+		wc : function(tx) {
 			var t = this, w = $('.word-count'), tc = 0;
 
-			if ( type === undefined )
-				type = wordCountL10n.type;
-			if ( type !== 'w' && type !== 'c' )
-				type = 'w';
-
 			if ( t.block )
 				return;
 
@@ -25,9 +23,15 @@
 
 			setTimeout( function() {
 				if ( tx ) {
+					// remove generally useless stuff first
 					tx = tx.replace( t.settings.strip, ' ' ).replace( /&nbsp;|&#160;/gi, ' ' );
+
+					// count east asia chars
+					tx = tx.replace( t.settingsEastAsia.count, function(){ tc++; return ''; } );
+
+					// count remaining western characters
 					tx = tx.replace( t.settings.clean, '' );
-					tx.replace( t.settings[type], function(){tc++;} );
+					tx.replace( t.settings.count, function(){ tc++; return ''; } );
 				}
 				w.html(tc.toString());