Hrvoje> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes: Hrvoje> Oh no! Please tell me that you are not confronting Hrvoje> "non-Mule XEmacs" with "Japanese"! I'm not. However, I have only a half a guess as to what Croats want, and none about what Vietnamese or Klingons want; that is why I restrict my statements including "should" or "must" to what I know something about: English, programming languages, and Japanese. You're welcome. Hrvoje> Besides, I'm no longer even convinced that the Japanese Hrvoje> want them. A Japanese correspondent (I think it was OISHI Hrvoje> Kazuo) made it clear that he didn't care about the issue Hrvoje> either way. _The_ Japanese don't want embedded spaces preserved; by and large they don't use them (the one common exception, embedding spaces between family and given name to justify a column in a name list, is very similar to Western usage). _Some_ Japanese and _some_ foreign users of Japanese do. I haven't interviewed any large fraction of Japanese on this issue; neither has anyone else that I know of. I am making an educated guess at what a good default would be for people who do use embedded spaces in Japanese, based on the practices I know about, several of which attach semantic meaning (other than "token separator") to white space. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What are those two straight lines for? "Free software rules."