Re: Japanese Web pages in Unicode?

[Doug Ewell]

ろ〇〇〇〇 ろ〇〇〇 <juuitchan at hotmail dot com> wrote:

> Maybe it is that Unicoded sequences are too bloody long. Like three-
> byte kana? [Cartoon idea: Kimono-clad Japanese woman malleting
> someone (I don't know who), while saying 
>「かなが一文字三バイト？！あんたね！」] Three-
> byte kana... in that case, why not just use romaji for storage and
> convert to kana for display, or something?

Gee, wouldn't it be nice if there were, oh, I don't know, a Standard
Compression Scheme or something that would encode kana in only one byte?

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California