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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.
The range U+FFA0–FFDC encodes halfwidth forms of compatibility jamo characters for Hangul, in a transposition of their 1974 standard layout. It is used in the mapping of some IBM encodings for Korean, such as IBM code page 933, which allows the use of the Shift Out and Shift In characters to shift to a double-byte character set. [5]
Devanagari is a Unicode block containing characters for writing languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Bodo, Maithili, Sindhi, Nepali, and Sanskrit, among others.In its original incarnation, the code points U+0900..U+0954 were a direct copy of the characters A0-F4 from the 1988 ISCII standard.
A duospaced font (also called a duospace font) is a fixed-width font whose letters and characters occupy either of two integer multiples of a specified, fixed horizontal space. Traditionally, this means either a single or double character width, [ 1 ] although the term has also been applied to fonts using fixed character widths with another ...
Alphanumeric (英数, eisū) toggles alphanumeric characters. In the Japanese 106/109-key layout, it is located on the Caps Lock key . Pressing Alphanumeric/Caps Lock key alone actually means alphanumeric function, a user has to press ⇧ Shift + 英数 / Caps Lock key to get the caps lock function.
In Unicode, as in Hindi, these consonants without their vertical stems are called "half forms". [61] श śa appears as a different, simple ribbon-shaped fragment preceding व va , न na , च ca , ल la , and र ra , causing these second members to be shifted down and reduced in size.
HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the ...
Unicode chart Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms}} provides a table listing the characters in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Unicode block. Hangul and katakana subsets can be listed using an optional parameter.