replacing Chinese chars with their spellings

[Boudewijn Rempt]

John Machin wrote:
> 
> Presumably the point of having a multi-character pronunciation table
> is that it is possible that pronounce("xy") can be != pronounce("x") +
> pronounce("y"). With careful thought, you may be able to remove
> redundant entries from your more-than-one-char dicts, so that they
> contain only the necessary exception cases -- but do try the basic
> approach first.
> 

Isn't big-5 a variable length encoding? I thought that was his
problem, not translating two or more character words. 

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