# File lib/rchardet/chardistribution.rb, line 225
    def get_order(aStr)
      # for euc-JP encoding, we are interested 
      #   first  byte range: 0xa0 -- 0xfe
      #   second byte range: 0xa1 -- 0xfe
      # no validation needed here. State machine has done that
      if aStr[0..0] >= "\xA0":
        return 94 * (aStr[0] - 0xA1) + aStr[1] - 0xa1
      else
        return -1
      end
    end