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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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