Hermetic Word Frequency Counter

Non-English Text

Hermetic Word Frequency Counter may be used with text in some (but not all) languages other than English, including German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese — in fact, any language with characters that can be encoded in WinLatin1 a.k.a. Windows 1252. The program also works with text in European languages encoded using Unicode. (As noted above, this program does not work correctly with UTF-8 text files which have non-English letters. These should be read using WordPad and resaved as Unicode text files.) Non-European languages, such as Armenian, Arabic, Hebrew, etc., are not supported.

Here are examples of the output when using German text (the words are ordered alphabetically) and French text (words are ordered by frequency):

The option for dropping a final 's' unless it is preceded by an 's' or a vowel is intended to allow the conflation of single and plural nouns in English (e.g., 'dog' and 'dogs'). This option also helps to conflate German nouns with their genitives, e.g., 'Bewußtsein' and 'Bewußtseins'. But this option may have unintended consequences, so it is better to leave it unchecked unless results of a scan suggest that it should be used.

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