Re: [tlug] katakana

[David Oftedal <david@example.com>]

Botond Botyanszki wrote:

>Can anybody explain the need for 3 different katakana characters? What's
>the purpose of having two smaller sized letters (narrow and half-width) ?
>
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFF00.pdf
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U30A0.pdf
>
>Example:
> [NORMAL] ワ, HEX: 30EF, isWide:1
> [HALF] ヮ, HEX: 30EE, isWide:1
> [NARROW] ワ, HEX: FF9C, isWide:0
>
>
>  
>
Well, normal is ovious.
Half is for use in weird loanword combinations, I guess, and narrow is
for use together with western letters, just as the double-width western
letters are intended for use with fullwidth katakana.

I guess. Not a bad guess, anyway.

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