Re: use of small kana on the increase?

"Phil Yff" <phil.yff@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:49:01 GMT, Paul Blay wrote:
First I don't think Google Groups minds base 64, it's the other servers
that don't pick it up (because it looks like binary).

I don't see her posts on a news server that accepts base 64. In fact, I
get Meredith's posts on it when some people don't. I'm not saying you're
wrong. Without tracking the post, all I can do is make an informed guess
based on the info in the header. I see it was posted on Google Groups and
I don't see it on any of the other news servers I have access to. So, my
assumption is it was left out of the Google Groups news feed.

If the _origin_ was Google Groups (and it was for Cindy's post) then if it isn't in the Google Groups news feed then it gets nowhere at all and thus nobody outside of Google Groups would ever have seen it.

Second I doubt it's the method of inputting Japanese, it's much more
likely to be an inappropriate encoding chosen to view the Google Groups page when entering the text or some encoding/language setting in Google Groups preferences.

I don't disagree. I think we're saying the same thing.

No we're not.

I think it's a question of semantics. Something is triggering the encoding to base64 and it is likely it is language related.

The point is that posts via Google Groups posts start as text in a plain-text textbox on a browser. A textbox that is completely indifferent to _how_ text is generated. If it's in the textbox and it looks like Japanese on your screen then it makes no difference how it was typed or where it was pasted from in what format. Thus there is no plausible benefit to be gained from pasting in text from a wordprocessor (say) instead of using an IME (as far as 64-bit encoding being used or not).

Incidentally the textbox used to enter text in Outlook Express is _not_ a plain text
textbox which can lead to some interesting (and annoying) 'features'.
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