Miata Mailing List: July 1997, Message #89
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From: 	Brian Tucker <bttucker@us.ibm.com>

Subject: RE: that nonsense text

Date: 	Wed, 2 Jul 1997 17:47:14 -0500



Japanese is what is called a 'double-byte character set'.  It takes two bytes

to signify each Japanese character.

Unicode will be at least this long as well, to accomodate most languages,

although the chinese are mad 'cause we won't support enough characters to

completely cover chinese.  Neither do their newspapers - newspaper chinese is

only about 2000 characters - but that's their choice, not that of us capitalist

imperialist running dogs :-)



Anyway, what you are seeing is your browser trying to interpret each byte as an

ASCII character, and you get many

high-order ASCII characters as a result (those above 128 decimal).  So I guess

you could call it an encryption...



Just try to get the sense of it as you blow past :-)



bt