On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, you wrote:
[...]
>
>For instance, "wo bu ji dao" would be four characters, encoded in
>eight (or sixteen) bytes, and indexed by htDig as four separate
>words. Am I mistaken?
>
Yes, you are. A "word" in transcribed Chinese may consist of one or
more Chinese letters. Your example only covered those words which
may only have one letter but other words (e.g. "Beijing") require
more letters.

>Jeff
>
Torsten

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