Hmmmm.

It is apparently awful that MSDN has committed such terrible crimes as:

1) providing multilingual samples, and
2) providing translations if their content into languages like Japanese

Although in the process of committing these terrible crimes they allow
Norman Diamond (who we could call N12D if we include the space there!) to
accuse Microsoft of doing terrible things like describing in Japanese
samples that were not written in Japanese, therefore proving terrible things
of some sort.

Most impressive here? The power of sarcasm that N12D wields is not to be
trifled with.

OTOH I guess I can do it too. :-)


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"Norman Diamond" <ndiamond (AT) community (DOT) nospam> wrote

I looked back at my original posting before it was quoted by Microsoft's
software. My original posting did not have long strings of question marks.

Even in a Japanese encoded posting that quoted a Japanese encoded posting,
Japanese text turned into long strings of question marks. More D20N at
work.

P.S. I agree, since Microsoft doesn't really want to sell working versions
of Japanese software or documentation, Microsoft should not do so. Let most
of the world's market be addressed by software makers who want to address
most of the world's market.


"Michael S. Kaplan [MSFT]" <michka (AT) online (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote