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

[Dan Cecile]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 12:15 AM, K. Handa <address@hidden> wrote:

> > 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?

Conceptually they are the same characters as what's used on the
Wikipedia page, but the "small secrets" webpage is in a weird encoding
(ISO-8859-1?).

> > > 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?

Yup, I'd be okay with that approach.

Cheers,
Dan Cecile