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Want to learn Japanese? Think again

So You Want To learn Japanese is an amusing send-up on learning the Japanese language. As a former student of Japanese, I can attest to the veracity of everything in the article.

And yet, I still adore Japanese language and culture. They don’t always make sense to my tiny Western brain, but I still love them.

Cute, but disturbing

Emacs Unicode support on Win32

I finally managed to get Win32 Emacs 21.2.1 to properly handle a Unicode text file. I’ve been meaning to get around to this for a while, because more and more often, the APIs in various Windows-based development platforms (among them Xbox) expect Unicode text files for configuration information. Even the Registry Editor (regedit) in Windows [...]