Re: To know and to understand

"Timmy Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > 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。")

Interesting. So then the question is, why did Daniel have one of those fat
Japanese spaces sitting in the middle of an otherwise completely English
post, the mystery deepens...

Jeff