> Anyway, provided I'm told that a given text is Japanese, I can tell if a letter is Kanji, Katakana, or Hiragana. Sometimes harder than you might think. e.g.

> Anyway, provided I'm told that a given text is Japanese, I can tell if a letter is Kanji, Katakana, or Hiragana. Sometimes harder than you might think. e.g. consider: ＊ロ口 ＊タ夕 ＊かカ力 ＊りリ (edit: these are more similar in the monotype font in the HN input box than the rendered comment)