From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 23:27:10 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [TUHS] Character sets
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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.