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Unicode even has distinct full width and half width variants of Japanese katakana - where ‘full width’ is (in theory) as wide as two Latin characters. Latin
by jameshart 3y ago
Unicode even has distinct full width and half width variants of Japanese katakana - where ‘full width’ is (in theory) as wide as two Latin characters.
Latin: Katakana
Full width: カタカナ
Half width: ｶﾀｶﾅ
(How that fixed width text looks in a web browser is anyone’s guess though. On iOS none of the Japanese kana stay on the fixed grid.)
- layer8 3y agoThe background here is that both are contained in the Japanese Shift JIS character set, and Unicode provides roundtrip compatibility. And they are in Shift JIS because the half-width katakana were in the 8-bit JIS character set [0] used with text-mode displays where all characters have the same width. To preserve screen layout, these later had to be distinguished from full-width katakana. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS_X_0201 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS_X_0201
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