Re: Rules for counting words in XyW 3+

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

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.

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Carl Distefano
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