Re: Why doesn't Ideographic (ID) in UAX#14 have half-width katakana?

Sorry, one correction:

On 2015/08/27 16:39, Martin J. Dürst wrote:

> In practice, technical restrictions in early limitations (one byte ==
> one (half-width) character cell) led to a typographic distinction. The
> fact that half-width Kana used less space was exploited in fixed-pitch
> screen design. That lead to a desire to keep the distinction when
> round-tripping via Unicode, and thus to different character names.

"early limitations" -> "early technologies.

Regards, Martin.
Received on Thu Aug 27 2015 - 03:04:59 CDT