Thread:Mathmagician/@comment-4795804-20120923193038/@comment-5209426-20121009225004

Spike asked me to take a look at this since I'm using EditCount in UserTags. Unfortunately, the way I use it is to wack the thing with a regex:  which removes everything which isn't a number. I also force the language to English so I don't need to care about non-English digits or other problems like that.

Since  doesn't work for some inexplicable reason, the only thing I can offer is that you create a stripper template to break down the string character by character, filter it then rebuild it for use with the   function.