is it possible that watched words work inaccurately in other languages like Arabic or Persian? currently we’ve added some words to watched, but topics without such words get affected.

Can you give some more details with examples?

I’d, I’m just not sure what kind of details or examples may be useful. by “example”, do you mean a list of Persian words which we have added to watched word, and a Persian text which got affected without containing the words? (would it be useful if the words and the text are not in English?)

[image] Pad_Pors: do you mean I give a list of Persian words which we have added to watched word, and then a Persian text which got affected without containing the words Yes. A specific example of “this is a text that triggered it, but it does not contain any of the watched workds from this l…

ok, I got it! we have this word in our watched word list: دین and then the last posts that needed approval contained words like this: اسکاندیناوی بدین ندین دادین … these 4 words, are all different words with different meaning. but have those three letters in them with the same sequence. sh…

The way you should trigger is including the regex for matching spaces or non-word characters on each side. For example let’s say you want to hide the following (kinda) naughty word in English ass so you replace it with butt Well, that’s called a clbuttic mistake … see Obscenity Filters: Bad …

The way we define word boundaries doesn’t work well for non-latin characters at the moment. There is some discussion on the issue here: [image] Censored words do not respect word boundaries in non-latin alphabet bug A censored word: ебля (f…ck) A word in post text: употр…

Watched words: in Persian, content is affected without containing the word

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david (David Taylor) May 9, 2019, 11:21am 7

The way we define word boundaries doesn’t work well for non-latin characters at the moment. There is some discussion on the issue here:

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Hope Watched words adds support for non-English characters Bug	2	53	February 20, 2026
* wildcards in Watched Words (Censor) don't work Feature	20	3208	January 11, 2018
Censored words do not respect word boundaries in non-latin alphabet Bug	8	1539	November 29, 2018
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Russian characters in Watched Words list are failing to be properly identified Bug watched-words	1	535	February 10, 2021

Watched words: in Persian, content is affected without containing the word

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