全型 and 半形

English translation: fullwidth/halfwidth

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Chinese term or phrase:全型 and 半形
English translation:fullwidth/halfwidth
Entered by: Aaron Gilkison (X)

13:00 Sep 26, 2006
Chinese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Linguistics
Chinese term or phrase: 全型 and 半形
翻譯規格
簡體中文須使用全型標點符號。英文則是「半形」的標點符號。
anastasia t (X)
Local time: 10:12
fullwidth/halfwidth
Explanation:
Halfwidth and fullwidth are technical designations for character size in unicode web encoding.


UTR #11: East Asian Width
4.1 Relation to the terms "full-width" and "half-width". 5 Conformance; 6 Recommendation ... Otherwise it resolves to full-width or half-width. ...
www.unicode.org/unicode/ standard/reports/tr11/tr11-5.html

COPYRIGHT: * Copyright (c) 2000-2005, International Business ...
... UnicodeString TransID[]={ "Halfwidth-Fullwidth", "Fullwidth-Halfwidth", ... "Halfwidth-Fullwidth" ,"Halfwidth to Fullwidth" , //"Latin-Arabic" ,"Latin ...
dev.icu-project.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ icu/source/test/intltest/transapi.cpp?rev=1.70

ISO 10646 Characters from U+FF00 to U+FFEF as HTML Entities
U+FF60, ⦆, ⦆, ⦆, FULLWIDTH RIGHT WHITE PARENTHESIS. U+FF61, 。, 。 。 HALFWIDTH IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP ...
www.theorem.ca/~mvcorks/cgi-bin/ unicode.pl.cgi?start=FF00&end=FFEF



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Note added at 6 hrs (2006-09-26 19:20:46 GMT)
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You could use the hyphen or not.
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Aaron Gilkison (X)
United States
Local time: 22:12
Grading comment
Thank you.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2fullwidth/halfwidth
Aaron Gilkison (X)
5full-size and half-size font character
yuzouren
4semi/full shape
Jennifer Li (X)
4double byte and single byte
Shang
4SBC case and DBC case
Ray Luo


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
full-size and half-size font character


Explanation:
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yuzouren
Japan
Local time: 11:12
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in category: 4
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
semi/full shape


Explanation:
Hi, I found the term on the website of Taiwan Chinese System Readme for your reference.


    Reference: http://www.wolfnet.com.tw/twcs/readme10.htm
Jennifer Li (X)
Local time: 10:12
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks a lot for the useful reference Jennifer. But is "semi/full shape" a valid english term or is it a "loan word" from Chinese. That is, shall I enclose the translation in quotation marks in case it is not a valid English term?

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
double byte and single byte


Explanation:
全型 = 全角 = 双字节 double byte
半形 = 半角 = 单字节 single byte

Shang
China
Local time: 10:12
Native speaker of: Chinese
PRO pts in category: 8
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
fullwidth/halfwidth


Explanation:
Halfwidth and fullwidth are technical designations for character size in unicode web encoding.


UTR #11: East Asian Width
4.1 Relation to the terms "full-width" and "half-width". 5 Conformance; 6 Recommendation ... Otherwise it resolves to full-width or half-width. ...
www.unicode.org/unicode/ standard/reports/tr11/tr11-5.html

COPYRIGHT: * Copyright (c) 2000-2005, International Business ...
... UnicodeString TransID[]={ "Halfwidth-Fullwidth", "Fullwidth-Halfwidth", ... "Halfwidth-Fullwidth" ,"Halfwidth to Fullwidth" , //"Latin-Arabic" ,"Latin ...
dev.icu-project.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ icu/source/test/intltest/transapi.cpp?rev=1.70

ISO 10646 Characters from U+FF00 to U+FFEF as HTML Entities
U+FF60, ⦆, ⦆, ⦆, FULLWIDTH RIGHT WHITE PARENTHESIS. U+FF61, 。, 。 。 HALFWIDTH IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP ...
www.theorem.ca/~mvcorks/cgi-bin/ unicode.pl.cgi?start=FF00&end=FFEF



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Note added at 6 hrs (2006-09-26 19:20:46 GMT)
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You could use the hyphen or not.

Aaron Gilkison (X)
United States
Local time: 22:12
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Thank you.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  xtang: agree. See http://www.chinese-forums.com/showthread.php?t=12556. Mainlanders call it 全角/半角。
6 hrs
  -> thank you!

agree  beirenbo: Definitely the most commonly used terms. You should have put a 5.
7 hrs
  -> thanks!
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
全型 and 半形=全角 and 半角
SBC case and DBC case


Explanation:
全角 SBC case
半角 DBC case

Quotmarks Replacer 1.0 beta - Convert all SBC quotation marks into DBC case
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/55301

Quotmarks Replacer is a plugin that converts all SBC quotation marks, suspension points and dashs into DBC case.

http://blog.sparanoid.com/archive/wordpress/quotmarks-replac...



Ray Luo
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:12
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in category: 4
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