RESEMBLING CHARACTER-CODE-GROUP SEARCH SUPPORTING METHOD, RESEMBLING CANDIDATE EXTRACTING METHOD, AND RESEMBLING CANDIDATE EXTRACTING APPARATUS

摘要

From among a plurality of character code groups, a resemblance determining apparatus searches for a character code group resembling a character code group specified by the user. At that time, when each character code included in the specified character code group is within a predetermined numerical range, the resemblance determining apparatus excludes character code groups having character codes outside of the predetermined numerical range and extracts the remaining character code groups.