Re: To know and to understand

"necoandjeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> "Kevin Wayne Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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.

IDSP is ideographic space. these unicode escape sequences are
sometimes used in html. if you saved the text to a html file and then
open it in a web browser, you'd probably be able to see what it says.
("私は大きい馬鹿です。")