From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Subject: [TUHS] Character sets
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 23:27:10 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1603272325540.96972@frieza.hoshinet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56F8732F.4010004@update.uu.se>
On Mon, 28 Mar 2016, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> And what are your thoughts on FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A (U+FF21). What
> is the semantic difference in having more whitespace around the letter? (It
> should semantically be decomposed to LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A (U+41), so for
> all unicode string comparisons, it is equal to A, but it's still a different
> code point.)
Japanese text uses full-width ASCII a lot.
I just today ran across some closed captions that had two lines in
English, and both lines were written full-width.
-uso.
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2016-03-27 10:09 ` [TUHS] Character sets (was: Command-line options) Johnny Billquist
2016-03-27 11:29 ` John Cowan
2016-03-27 11:47 ` [TUHS] Character sets Johnny Billquist
2016-03-27 21:49 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-27 21:53 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-27 21:59 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-27 22:19 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-27 22:21 ` Charles Anthony
2016-03-27 23:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-28 0:20 ` John Cowan
2016-03-28 1:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-28 0:18 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-27 23:30 ` John Cowan
2016-03-27 23:56 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-28 1:54 ` John Cowan
2016-03-28 3:27 ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2016-03-28 1:20 ` Random832
2016-03-28 1:58 ` John Cowan
2016-03-28 5:12 ` Random832
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