Re: How to ensure 1 byte per character

Paul <Paul.Domaskis@gmail.com> [15-05-01 03:46]:
> This is my first foray into character encoding, and I'm trying to
> ensure that a large file is of the size that one can expect for 1 byte
> per character. It is a simple text file that contains about 42
> million characters. The file on the HD is 84MB. I've set encoding
> and fileencoding to latin1, which the help says is 8-bit characters.
> I also have fileformat=unix to ensure that line endings are only 1
> byte. After writing to HD, however, the file on the HD is still 84MB.
> I know that it's not due to my use of cygwin because for this very text
> that I'm using to compose this message, the characters counts so match
> the file size.
>
> What else could be cause the 2x discrepancy between file size and
> characte count?
>
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Hi Paul,

what operating system do you use and from what tool/source is the
information about the length of the file?

Best regards,
Meino


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