Re: Counting hiragana in EUC

[jwb@example.com (Jim Breen)]

>> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>
>> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:11:05 +0900
>> 
>> >>>>> "Simon" == Simon Cozens <simon@example.com> writes:
>>     Simon> My segmentation algorithm is working nicely on English
>>     Simon> input, so I'm kinda giddy right now, but I haven't exposed
>>     Simon> it to Japanese text just yet. That's tomorrow's job.
>> 
>> Have a bottle handy.  My linguist ex-girlfriend (Greek phonology, I
>> believe you know what I'm talking about?) was of the opinion that
>> Japanese phonology, even linearized into text, is about as closely
>> related to European languages as lemurs are to humans.

ROTFL.

By "English input", I assumed Simon meant "Japanese_using_romaji", but
who knows .......?

(I'm often getting email asking how to write something in "English
Japanese" or "Japanese using English letters" or some such. Some are
even pickier and want "American letters". Strangely, no-one has asked for
Japanese in French letters yet.)

Cheers

Jim
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