This is fascinating stuff. Let me get this straight...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [an excellent explanation]
> katakana is primarily used to write words of foreign origin.
Is "Cancel" considered a foreign word in this context? Do the katakana
characters in question really spell out Cancel phonetically? Instead of
having a kanji to represent Cancel or hiragana to spell out the Japanese
word for Cancel?
> full-width and half-width [...] terms refer to the relative glyph
> size of the characters.
So in the SJIS character set there are two different sets of the same
katakana characters: half width and full width? Are the full width
literally twice as wide, or does this more vaguely refer to them being
only somewhat wider with better resolution?
Do hiragana and/or kanji come in both half and full widths too?
> In SJIS the half-width katakana characters are represented by
> a single byte and hence the term single-byte katakana.
So the half width katakana are in the 0x80-0xFF range, what we used to
call "extended ASCII"? And the full width katakana (plus all hiragana
and kanji and everything else) are encoded with multiple bytes (lead
byte + trail byte(s)) in the 0x0100-0xFFFF range?
Let me know if I'm getting this or now.
Also, would it be possible for someone to post the SJIS byte sequences
for a few basic strings like Cancel, Details, Help, etc. It would be
interesting just to play around with these for now.
-slj-
