Hiro San, get yourself a Japanese Keyboard. It has these convenient additional keys left from the spacebar saying 英語 (English) and right from it saying か な (Kana). Just press English in any case. I made it a habit ... mostly ;-)
All the best Matthias ----------------------------------------------- Admilon Consulting GmbH http://www.admilon.com iChat/AIM: MatKoyasan Tel. +81-736-56-3905 ----------------------------------------------- Am/On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:34:15 -0400 schrieb/wrote A-NO-NE Music: > >I have one more to add. > >Is there any way to stop this behavior? >- When list pane in 3 pane view is focused, if you hit letter 'a' by >mistake, PM goes into spinning beachball to find a message which subject >starts with letter 'a'. I really wish to stop this behavior. > >This is what's happening to me. >[SPACE] is to scroll displayed message body, which I use a lot, almost >all the messages viewing. If I am back and forth between iChat and PM, >I often forget my IME (Kotoeri) is engaged. If I hit [SPACE] expecting >to scroll the message body but with IME engaged, PM goes into looooooong >spinning beachball to find message subject starts with 0x3000 (I think), >and I have to go to make coffee :_( > >-- > >- Hiro > >Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA ><http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> > > > >