Re: coreutils wc count multi bytes question

Hi, I am Japanese speaker and "this is a 文件 vi 打的" looks to me 6 words. (Please note both Japanese and Chinese rarely use space as word separator, so this should be parsed by english syntax. Also Japanese tends to treat pair of Kanji as a word. For example, Kanji is 漢字.) I count

Re: coreutils wc count multi bytes question

Neo Anderson, le Fri 06 Feb 2009 15:50:34 -0800, a écrit : > If I remember correctly that there is a mapping table, so possibly this can > be done. But of course, perhaps this is just my wishful thinking. The problem is that posix says `The wc utility shall consider a word to be a non-zero-lengt

Re: coreutils wc count multi bytes question

ps this is just my wishful thinking. My English is not very good. Hope my reply is not rude. Many thanks for your help, --- On Fri, 6/2/09, Samuel Thibault wrote: > From: Samuel Thibault > Subject: Re: coreutils wc count multi bytes question > To: "Neo Anderson" > C

Re: coreutils wc count multi bytes question

Hello, Neo Anderson, le Fri 06 Feb 2009 15:18:51 -0800, a écrit : > this is a 文件 vi 打的 > > The manual words count are 8 characters. How do you count that? > But the output of wc -w is 6. It seems like it is separated as token by white > space. So the characters of Chinese which concatenates to

coreutils wc count multi bytes question

Hi Not very sure whether this is the right place to ask. But after searching the mailing list at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe, I can't find a better one to post my question. So ask it here. My question is - does wc can count multi bytes characters, such as Big5/ UTF-8 Chinese?