CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Louise Bremner wrote:
> > aki <akikosamba@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> > 
> >> My?????????Aki??I??????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> >> ?????????J?????
> >> At ???????I????????????????????????????????????????
> >> Interview??
> >> ???Why?????you ??????????????????Japan?
> >> ???What??????????????????????????????????Japanese??????????????????????
> >> ???????????Japan?
> >> ???What??????????????????????Japanese????????????
> >> ???What????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> >> ???What???????????????????????????????????Japan?
> >> ???What????????????????????????????????
> > 
> > Since I have to export Japanese text to another application to read it,
> > I get to see the fascinating choice of words that are in single-byte
> > characters instead of the two-byte characters that English compositions
> > are customarily written in to pad out the page better. Sorry, you
> > slipped up there, Aki. Or is this a stylistic device I haven't
> > encountered before?
> 
> Do tell us more about your suspicions.  I get E and J inline and miss
> these little things.  Header says:
> 
> NNTP-Posting-Host: 121.116.208.89
> 
> and my IP tracker says:
> 
> 121.116.208.89 : i121-116-208-89.s04.a012.ap.plala.or.jp
> 
> but, it came via google groups.

No suspicions. It's just that MacSOUP doesn't do two-byte characters,
and yes I really really should use something else for reading Usenet,
except that it does everything I want otherwise and the author wrote me
a neat little script to export the text to a browser so I can read the
Japanese (and then he updated it within minutes when I pointed out that
his original script couldn't cope with the few Shift-JIS posts that
sometimes appear here). So I was just curious about why Aki switched out
of zenkaku mode to input some words in hankaku, seeing as how that would
be extra keystrokes, is all.

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