Re: who knows the meaning of ??

jim_breen_at_hotmail.com
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: 20 Oct 2004 22:40:41 GMT

Paul Blay <ranma@saotome.demon.co.uk> dixit:
>crossposting to sci.lang.japan

>A rather round about route took me to ...
>http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=5361

>?? appears to be well represented in Chinese words (of which I
>know nothing) but it also has a codepoint in JIS X 0212 and JIS X 0213
>so it _might_ be used in Japanese somewhere.

Erm. Your posting was in GB2312 coding, as was Ines' original.

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>P.S. If Jim Breen is reading this searching for
>?? with "Check if you want to include JIS X 0212 kanji:" checked
>produces the result "Warning: the romaji key ?? did not convert
>correctly. Try again?"

>I suppose if I read all the documentation there's be a note about
>this somewhere...

Hmmm. You posted a GB2312 character into an EUC-JP form? The
result depends on what your browser did with it. Sounds like it
mangled it. 

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