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Unlike monospaced fonts, a halfwidth character occupies half the width of a fullwidth character, hence the name. Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms is also the name of a Unicode block U+FF00–FFEF, provided so that older encodings containing both halfwidth and fullwidth characters can have lossless translation to and from Unicode.
Range U+FF61–FF9F encodes halfwidth forms of katakana and related punctuation in a transposition of A1 to DF in the JIS X 0201 encoding – see half-width kana. The range U+FFA0–FFDC encodes halfwidth forms of compatibility jamo characters for Hangul, in a transposition of their 1974 standard layout.
Shift +⇪ Caps Lock switch between full-width Hiragana ↔ full-width alphanumeric (romaji) Alt +` (Grave Accent) switch between kana ↔ half-width alphanumeric (romaji) Alt+~ (Tilde) toggle kana/direct input; ↵ Enter no conversion, all previous characters are accepted "as is" (all propositions from IME are rejected)
Half-width kana (半角カナ, Hankaku kana) are katakana characters displayed compressed at half their normal width (a 1:2 aspect ratio), instead of the usual square (1:1) aspect ratio. For example, the usual (full-width) form of the katakana ka is カ while the half-width form is ｶ.
The kana to kanji converter offers a list of candidate kanji writings for the input kana, and the user may use the space bar or arrow keys to scroll through the list of candidates until they reach the correct writing. On reaching the correct written form, pressing the Enter key, or sometimes the "henkan" key, ends the conversion process. This ...
Romaji input is more common on PCs and other full-size keyboards (although direct input is also widely supported), whereas direct kana input is typically used on mobile phones and similar devices – each of the 10 digits (1–9,0) corresponds to one of the 10 columns in the gojūon table of kana, and multiple presses select the row.
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 ...
JIS X 0201, the Japanese version of ISO 646 containing the base 7-bit ASCII characters (with some modifications) and 64 half-width katakana characters. JIS X 0208 , the most common kanji character set containing 6,879 characters, including 6,355 kanji and 524 other characters (one 94 by 94 plane)