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A command prompt with Korean localisation, showing halfwidth and fullwidth characters. In CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) computing, graphic characters are traditionally classed into fullwidth [a] and halfwidth [b] characters. Unlike monospaced fonts, a halfwidth character occupies half the width of a fullwidth character, hence the name.
This LED screen at Haiki Station displays ｼｰｻｲﾄ゙ﾗｲﾅｰ (Seaside Liner) in half-width katakana. Half-width kana and 2/3-width kana were used from pre-computer era. [3] In the early computer era, ASCII is defined as a 7-bit character set and has room for 128 characters.
Half-width equivalents to the usual full-width katakana also exist in Unicode. These are encoded within the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block (U+FF00–U+FFEF) (which also includes full-width forms of Latin characters, for instance), starting at U+FF65 and ending at U+FF9F (characters U+FF61–U+FF64 are half-width punctuation marks). This ...
It is the second-to-last block of the Basic Multilingual Plane, followed only by the short Specials block at U+FFF0–FFFF. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Halfwidth and Fullwidth Variants. [4] Range U+FF01–FF5E reproduces the characters of ASCII 21 to 7E as fullwidth forms.
Japanese punctuation marks are usually "full width" (that is, occupying an area that is the same as the surrounding characters). Punctuation was not widely used in Japanese writing until translations from European languages became common in the 19th century.
Half-width/Full-width/Kanji (半角 / 全角 / 漢字, hankaku / zenkaku / kanji) toggles between entering half-width or full-width characters (if 2 versions of same character exists), and also between IME on (for Japanese, see Kanji key) and off (for English, see Alphanumeric key).
'Kana' is a compound of kari (仮, 'borrowed; assumed; false') and na (名, 'name'), which eventually collapsed into kanna and ultimately 'kana'. [3]Today it is generally assumed that 'kana' were considered "false" kanji due to their purely phonetic nature, as opposed to mana which were "true" kanji used for their meanings.
Substitutes uniformly-spaced characters with half-width version Alternate Half Widths: halt: P1 Re-positions full-width glyphs on half-width spaces Third Widths: twid: S1,P1 Substitutes uniformly-spaced character with a version of 1/3 width (punctuation, etc.) Quarter Widths: qwid: S1 Replaces uniformly-spaced glyphs with quarter-width ones ...