Neo Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not very sure whether I can send attach file or not. In this mail I've
> sent an attached file (file name is sample.big5), in which it contains
> 4 Traditional Chinese words encoded in BIG5. There is no white space
> between these 4 words.
>
> The content looks like "中文測試".

Thanks for the details, but POSIX[1] requires that wc count that as
a single word:

    The wc utility shall consider a word to be a non-zero-length string of
    characters delimited by white space.

[1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/wc.html


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