Re: Counting hiragana in EUC

[jwb@example.com (Jim Breen)]

>> Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 13:15:50 +0000
>> From: Simon Cozens <simon@example.com>
>> 
>> Suppose I have some all-hiragana EUC text. To count the number of
>> characters, would it suffice to divide the byte count by two?

Yes, once you allow for any single-byte punctuation, plus the LFs if you
are considering a file.

Jim
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