Hello Kino,

Thank you for your reply.

On Jun 2, 2011, at 7:58 PM, Kino wrote:

> On 2011-06-02 [+0900 JST], at 2:18 PM, Nobumi Iyanaga wrote:
>
>> Here is one which intrigued me very much: in System Preferences >  
>> Language & Text > Text > Word Break, I selected "Japanese". In  
>> previous OSs, this made a change in the behaviour of text engine,  
>> when we select a "word" by double-clicking in Japanese text: this  
>> used to select a chunk of Hiraganas, or Katakanas, or Kanjis, etc.  
>> -- but I noticed that on my new iMac, double-clicking a Japanese  
>> text selects only one character at once
>
> Something is wrong with your OS X installation. Perhaps your ~/ 
> Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
> in which that option is saved as 'AppleTextBreakLocale' is corrupted.

After I posted this query, I discovered that in fact, I was  
confused... I changed the setting in System Preferences > Language &  
Text > Text > Word Break while I was running NWP. After I have  
changed it, the behaviour of selecting "words" by "Shift + Option +   
Arrow Key" changed, but the same by double-clicking remains as before  
(only one character selected). -- But I noticed that the behaviour in  
other application changed. -- When I quitted once NWP and relaunched  
it, the behaviour changed as what was expected (chunks of kanjis,  
hiraganas, katakanas, selected by double-clicking).

So, now, it is working normally.

Thank you for your reply anyway.

Best regard,

Nobumi Iyanaga
Tokyo,
Japan