Re: [clreq] Fullwidth full stop or half width full stop?

As "Requirement", CLREQ recommend  `U+FF0E` FULLWIDTH FULL STOP as the document mentioned.

Or, if in typographic description, in shape, the mark itself should be a dot (or, an English-style period) , and also in spacing, it should be followed with some spacing, e.g. en/halfwidth. How much spacing exactly use should depends on layout house style.

In some style, some editor use  `U+002E` FULL STOP [.] and then with a word space right after it, make the spacing visually to be the same.  This might be a kind of solution. But in most fonts, the glyph of `U+002E` FULL STOP [.]  is mainly for wester script, its shape and position is matched with Latin alphabets by default, usually not the same for East-Asian ideographs. So CLREQ still recommend `U+FF0E` FULLWIDTH FULL STOP instead of `U+002E` FULL STOP [.] 

Last but not least, one should always be careful that the code point and the glyph mapping is defined by font makers, and the visual result will not always the same.  And after adjustments of layout software, some fullwidth character may just "looks like" halfwidth visually in final work after layout settings like 标点挤压.

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