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Why do all Japanese/Korean/Chinese names use fullwidth characters?
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 12:19 pm
by Hiccup
Fullwidth spaces/latin letters etc
Surely this isn't how they all really are on discs/packaging/websites/in-game?
Re: Why do all Japanese/Korean/Chinese names use fullwidth characters?
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2018 4:23 am
by JosJuice
For Korean games in particular, I've noticed that redump sometimes uses fullwidth spaces and sometimes uses halfwidth spaces. Seems kinda inconsistent... As far as I know, Korean usually uses halfwidth spaces.
Re: Why do all Japanese/Korean/Chinese names use fullwidth characters?
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 7:25 am
by F1ReB4LL
I think Shift-JIS with its wide symbols is a standard for Japanese typing.
Re: Why do all Japanese/Korean/Chinese names use fullwidth characters?
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 5:19 pm
by JosJuice
But Shift-JIS also supports halfwidth characters. They do get used when writing Western language words embedded in Japanese text, albeit with exceptions.
Re: Why do all Japanese/Korean/Chinese names use fullwidth characters?
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 8:08 pm
by fuzzball
F1ReB4LL wrote:I think Shift-JIS with its wide symbols is a standard for Japanese typing.
I feel ASCII characters are often half-width.
ref.
https://www.yahoo.co.jp/
Re: Why do all Japanese/Korean/Chinese names use fullwidth characters?
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 1:46 am
by F1ReB4LL
Wiki pages, satakore.com and most of other console-related resources usually use full-width ones and people usually copy-paste them as is.
Surely this isn't how they all really are on discs/packaging/websites/in-game?
Meh, it's hard to say whether the symbols are full or half width on the cover when there's no other text nearby to compare with
Though, if you look at obis/spine cards, the spaces are usually quite wide (especially before the subtitles).