Re: Character counter?

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@compuserve.com)
Date: Sun Nov 12 2000 - 00:28:35 EST


11digitboy@bolt.com wrote:

> I meant, let's say I have a bunch of Roman letters
> with some Japanese thrown in. How do I count *that*?

You would count each kanji, kana, or romaji as one character each.

This means that, depending on the writing system used, a given word may
require a variable number of characters (but that is true even for
Latin vs. Cyrillic).

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California



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