I used to think this sort of posting was off-topic, but I see it so often that I assume it's OK. I have a friend whose 6-year-old son, Nicholas, has some Japanese ancestry and there was recently a discussion about how his name would be written in Japanese. I don't know Japanese (as you will soon see), but I'd like to think I can handle this sort of thing. Please, all you Japanese experts and semi-experts, let me know if the following is correct and if not, where I am going wrong: 1. It should be written in Katakana, since it is an English "loan word." 2. The correct rendering in the Japanese language is "Nikorasu." 3. The correct Unicode spelling would therefore be U+30CB U+30B3 U+30E9 U+30B9. Please respond privately, not to the list, unless you think your reply might be of interest to the list in general. Thanks, -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
