[Moderator Action] Re: [nelocsig] Re: International Search Engine Submission

At 04:49 PM 2/15/00 +0900, Stuart Woodward wrote:
> >This is a holdover
>from the hardware word processor world which could only print in two sizes.

This is  not correct. Normal Japanese is written this way and has been for 
hundreds, maybe almost a thousand years. It has nothing to do with computers.


>So, if you search for "teribi" in half width characters you may not get any
>hits for pages


Just in case anyone is going to try this search as an example, the world 
for television is "te-RE-bi".

Barry

Received on Tuesday, 15 February 2000 22:34:21 UTC