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From: Anthony Mandic <om@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] input methods for non-ascii languages
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 08:26:09 +0000
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"boyd, rounin" wrote:
>=20
> > These two could be considered to be different cases for the
> > same syllabic sound. So they'd be something akin to upper and
> > lower case in European character sets ...
>=20
> not at all.  you DO NOT write 'pure' japanese with katakana -- ever.

	Well, you could if you wanted to, but I do understand what you
	mean. Its not normal and would look as odd to the Japanese,
	possibly, as all uppercase does to us.

	But going back to your original comment where you said that
	Japanese has 4 character sets, in terms of computer character
	sets (i.e. s-jis etc.) its only one isn't it?

-am	=A9 2003