I noticed today that, when highlighting a long idiomatic phrase of 12 words in French, I exceeded the word limit upon highlighting the exclamation point that came after it.
I like to highlight ending punctuation or quotation marks where it’s relevant, but it seemed a little buggy that the punctuation in this case put me over the 12-word limit.
PS: This may be specific to French, if the word count is based on number of spaces, since French requires a space before exclamation points and question marks.