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Here is an interesting discovery. Copy the following text into a buffer:
'hello world'
'नमस्कार नमस्कार'
One can see that there are four words, two on line 1 and two on line 2.
Emacs count these as six words! Two on line 1 and four on line 2!
In case if it matters, I am using Doom Emacs v 2.0.9, Emacs v 26.3.
How do I set things right?
The problem is with the second line which Emacs sometimes treats as four words. I can reproduce this in Vanilla Emacs 26.3 and 28.1. If I copy your text into the Emacs scratch buffer or into a .el file I get the correct count. If I copy the text into an org file or text file, the count is incorrect. This persuades me that this is likely a bug which has to do with the way Emacs treats the Hindi script, in which case I would file a bug report. First I would check my dot Emacs for language specific and environment settings and remove any you have specifically added.
