help with double byte in website

[Bucky]

I am looking for some help on customizing a web template to deal with counting double byte and single byte characters.

We have a website template that we are using for classified advertising purposes in the US. We are billing the clients for the ads based on line length – 20 doublebyte/40 single byte characters per line for $X.00.

The folks who handle all the back end work on the site are not Japanese and do not have a lot of double byte experience.

They have tried a work around of creating separate fields that will hold 40 characters with the thought that the double byte characters would be interpreted as 2 single byte characters, and we could get 20 double byte or 40 single byte characters in the field however that did not work. Both double byte AND single byte ended up counted the same. Is there some way to code in a counting configuration that would interpret double byte as two and single byte as one character?

Thanks

[yanpa]

Short answer: yes. Long answer: depends on the software (language, database) you're using.