Re: To know and to understand

"necoandjeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "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.
> 
> Jeff


Hmm.. afraid even I can't shed any light on what the mystery
character(s) were either.  Sometimes the IME goes on while I'm typing
and a stray Japanese character gets in there, but I didn't notice
anything when I posted last time.  I guess I'll put it down to a
'feature' of posting from google newgroups..