i'm not sure why it doesn't work in some forums that use Opentopic [like on Arstechnica], but inputting Japanese into the text field does not always work. let's see if it works here:
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if anyone knows how to override the forum's input field text formatting [i've tried turning off the 'allow pages to specify fonts' pref in IE 5 and it still didn't work.
thanks
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