Re: To know and to understand

"Kevin Wayne Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> necoandjeff wrote:
> > "Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >>Yes, that's what I meant to say.&#12288;
> >
> >
> > What is the &#12288? I recognize it as intending to be a numerical code
for
> > a character but I can't get it to display with the encoding set to
Western
> > European, Japanese or Unicode.
> >
> It's the high-tech equivalent of "?". When someone that doesn't know how
> to set their encoding properly posts, it used to come out ??????????,
> but now it comes out
>
&#31169;&#12399;&#22823;&#12365;&#12356;&#39340;&#40575;&#12391;&#12377;&#12
290;
>
> It means the same thing.

Interesting. So 12288 in hex equivalent is 3000. When I look that up in a
unicode table (assuming it is unicode) I get some symbol that consists of
the letters IDSP: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3000.pdf. Any idea what
that is? Looking it up in Shift JIS doesn't help either because my
understanding is that the first byte of a shift JIS character must be
between 129 and 159 decimal (81-9F hex) whereas the first byte here is 30.

Jeff