Re: [m17n-list] Full-width punctuation for CJK

[K. Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Dan Cecile <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm having a hard time finding any real documentation on Chinese IME
> for the "enumeration comma" and the "6-dot ellipsis". This webpage
> mentions them, and the shortcuts work for the IMEs I have installed
> (except for the "dividing dot"):

>         http://www.daochinasite.com/eng/study/inputips.shtml

That page shows "ｷ (U+FF77)" as "dividing dot" and "�
(U+FFFD)" as omission points, but that is strange because
U+FF77 is a Japanese Katakana character, and U+FFFD is
"REPLACEMENT CHARACTER".  They don't appear in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_punctuation.  Are you
sure they are used in Chinese writing?

> > Which do you prefer?  Shifting method as above, or direct
> > typing (i.e. non-shifting) as the mapping rules you showed?

> Hmm maybe some kind of shifting would be better, because allowing the
> user to toggle full/half-width is how most IMEs tackle this. But I
> don't have a strong use case for shifting, because I don't think I'd
> ever need half-width punctuation (it looks odd to me in a block of CJK
> text).

How about mapping all the remaining punctuation keys
(i.e. not yet mapped to bopomofo characters) to fullwidth
punctuation characters, and also providing shifting method
for wider range of fullwidth characters?

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Kenichi Handa
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