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Description
Perceived Problem
Currently we estimate the number of words in a post as the number of spaces plus one, and assume a reading speed of 200 words per minute. This fails pretty badly in languages that don't use spaces as word separators.
Ideas / Proposed Solution(s)
- While there are techniques for best-guess word separation in languages with idiographic writing systems, we can probably just store info in the languages table that indicate if a language has a idiographic writing system and find a rough characters-per-minute estimate for those languages.