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In article <2609@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
>If I throw away a short e-mail message from Japan to Japanese
>friend living in China, how can my friend read the text with
>the appropriately shaped character?

Ohta-san,

Could you be more specific about this claim that you continue to
make over and over again that a Japanese reader cannot read a
Unicode encoded Japanese text which is displayed with a Chinese
Unihan font versus a Japanese Unihan font.

I would be very interested to see any kind of hard data (other than
your opinion) that would substantiate this claim.  Personally, I
don't believe you will be able to produce any; but I'm very willing
to listen if you can come up with any.

I should add that any data on this topic should be keyed to the
notion of legibility (i.e., readability) and not aesthetic judgment.
I would contend -- also with hard data to back up my claim -- that
you are incorrect in your assertion, and that, indeed, Japanese
readers *can* read Unicode encoded Japanese text displayed with
a Chinese Unihan font.

Glenn Adams