Re: Rules for counting words in XyW 3+

["J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

Carl Distefano wrote:

> Reply to note from "Yo Intl. YK"  Wed, 27 Feb 2002
> 19:12:11 +0900
>
> > But here is a question: How comes the *byte count* for the same
> > clean text file created in XY is different from the "character
> > count" one gets from MS Word? It should not, but it is, as I
> > recently found out. Typical difference is about 2 k.
>
> If the XyWrite byte count is higher, it may be because your text
> includes 3-byte characters, which inflate the byte count by 2 bytes
> apiece. A thousand 3-byters equals 3K bytes, 2K more than the
> character count.

So that I don't have to dive back into Robert's thorough & complex
treatise on this subject, can you remind us what the 3-byters are ?
(I'm guessing things like the Copyright symbol, or maybe some XPL stuff
?) Maybe even a short, sweet, and simplified "Key" to the character
types ? If such a reference description exists inside jumbo U2, just
mention where we should look for it.

Thanks.

Jordan