Ken wrote:
> Kevin Gowen wrote:
> 
>>If you fix your chat machine you will be able to...
> 
> 
> I wonder what makes you think I have control over this particular
> "chat" machine...
> It would be a bit uncivil of me to install an IME on a system I don't
> own.  Temporarily pointing a X11 server to a net-accessible font server,
> on the other hand, doesn't leave any customizations behind when I leave.
> Having no IME available makes inputting e.g. japanese a quite tedious
> copy and paste process, but one sometimes doesn't have a choice.
> Anyway, these concepts are probably beyond the intellectual grasp
> of a person who has never used anything more advanced than a small
> personal computer -- sorry, "chat" machine...
> 
> 
> 
>>...post in hanzis [sic] as easily as most of the rest of us do.
> 
> 
> Interesting, this "[sic]".  It seems you hasn't been able to figure
> out how to copy the two text lines with the HTML "&xxx;" entities
> into a clipboard and paste them between <html> </html> tags and open
> the resulting text file in a web browser.  Why am I not surprised.

Why on earth would anyone bother to cut and paste your post? What did 
you say around it that make it so compelling that anyone would go to 
that effort? Using a bizarre plural of "hanzi" when I am pretty sure you 
are referring to Japanese text (I'm not sure ... I didn't go through the 
cut and paste tango), where the word "kanji" would be more appropriate, 
didn't do anything to make me want to go to the effort.

KGII is proof of an old axiom: just because someone is an asshole 
doesn't mean he's wrong.

KWW