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ｉ ｗｏｒｋ ｉｎ ｃｈｉｎａ，ｆｅｅｌｓ ｌｉｋｅ ｈａｌｆ ｍｙ ｊｏｂ ｉｓ ａｄｄｉｎｇ ＆ ｓｕｂｔｒａｃｔｉｎｇ ｓｐａｃｅｓ ｆｒｏｍ ｔｈｅ ｓｔｒａｎｇｅ ｔｙｐｅ ｆａｃｅ ｈｅｒｅ．
by ddxv 12y ago
ｉ ｗｏｒｋ ｉｎ ｃｈｉｎａ，ｆｅｅｌｓ ｌｉｋｅ ｈａｌｆ ｍｙ ｊｏｂ ｉｓ ａｄｄｉｎｇ ＆ ｓｕｂｔｒａｃｔｉｎｇ ｓｐａｃｅｓ ｆｒｏｍ ｔｈｅ ｓｔｒａｎｇｅ ｔｙｐｅ ｆａｃｅ ｈｅｒｅ．
- w00kie 12y agoＩ ｆｅｅｌ ｙｏｕ．
- masklinn 12y agoUnicode-wise, "ｗ" {U+FF57 FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER W} is the composition of the compatibility tag "<wide>" and {U+0077 LATIN SMALL LETTER W}. You can get rid of the compatibility tags by using NFK* (normal form compatibility): >>> s = "ｉ ｗｏｒｋ ｉｎ ｃｈｉｎａ，ｆｅｅｌｓ ｌｉｋｅ ｈａｌｆ ｍｙ ｊｏｂ ｉｓ ａｄｄｉｎｇ ＆ ｓｕｂｔｒａｃｔｉｎｇ ｓｐａｃｅｓ ｆｒｏｍ ｔｈｅ ｓｔｒａｎｇｅ ｔｙｐｅ ｆａｃｅ ｈｅｒｅ．" >>> import unicodedata >>> print(unicodedata.normalize('NFKC', s)) i work in china,feels like half my job is adding & subtracting spaces from the strange type face here. It doesn't actually have to do with typefaces, the typeface is just the system trying to find a font able to display those specific glyphs, which are compatibility forms for dot-matrix printers and fixed-width terminals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms I'm guessing their continued use is because there are also aesthetic considerations at play for native readers, for whom variable-width latin script could look plain weird.
- zhte415 12y agoMe too ,I know how you feel。