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> Japanese uses at least four scripts Which four? I can only count to 3. My understanding is that all the characters are "fixed width", even the Latin ones. I
by hnfong 4y ago
> Japanese uses at least four scripts
Which four? I can only count to 3. My understanding is that all the characters are "fixed width", even the Latin ones. I imagine that makes typesetting easier, and presumably doesn't require the complexity of the Knuth algorithm.
- kccqzy 4y agoKanji, katakana, hiragana, Arabic numerals, Latin text, and punctuation. It depends on the quality of the typesetting and the formality, but you can expect the Arabic numerals, Latin text and punctuations to have different widths than the rest. Of course it's acceptable to make everything full-width, just like in English.
- astrange 4y agoJapanese text is often set not fixed-width in real life. If it includes non-CJK characters like Latin text and punctuation that may be proportional in a font that matches the other text, for instance. And when you’re not talking about a book, but an ad or something like that, it’s common to have a bunch of different text sizes or make some of the words in a sentence bigger to emphasize them.