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On Nov 22, 2003, at 3:37 PM, Alaric B Snell wrote:
> Good point, actually... I suppose that, in general, any language which
> uses more than 256 code points in general use is actually quite likely
> to be a language that uses one code point per word.
No, actually. I don't know much about Chinese, but the average number
of characters/word in Japanese is two point something; you have to
learn 1700 or so characters to get out of Japanese high school, and
literate people pick up quite a few more. Korean Hangul are syllabics
and thus there are naturally several per word. -Tim
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