Oct 27, 2026, 11:45 AM@gsuberland@chaos.social @fluepke@chaos.social wait, CJK can also be wide/narrow? I'm only aware of halfwidth/full-width katakana
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- Oct 27, 2026, 11:47 AM
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Emelia/Emibecomethewaifu@tech.lgbtOct 27, 2026, 12:11 PM@alice @gsuberland @fluepke Yeah, my input methods only support half-width for katakana. Compressing all but the simplest kanji like that would render them "rather illegible." There are multiple ways to encode korean though.
Since hangul uses "multiple sub-characters per character" (oversimplified, but that's the gist) there's two ways to represent it in unicode: "pre-composed" codepoints representing an entire syllable, or as individual decomposed elements. Both display as the same glyphs.
That said, unicode normalization will convert everything to the latter form, so it shouldn't be that big of a deal in practice? Assuming whoever is programming something that needs it is competent enough to understand that they need it in the first place...
波鉄 (Hatetsu)HaTetsu@mastodon.com.plOct 29, 2026, 9:11 AM@becomethewaifu @alice @gsuberland @fluepke And half-width hiragana is a graphic variant I've seen in Windows UI fonts, I think?