Re: Spaces and full width punctuation in Korean

r12a wrote on 29/09/2020 09:34:
> In my own notes at https://r12a.github.io/scripts/hangul/#quotations 
> there is a mention that spaces are used before but not after quote 
> marks, but it's not clear to me why, and although the examples are 
> text-based, i don't seem to have listed the source. Grr.

Looking at Korean Wikipedia, i notice a similar pattern.  For example

김소월 <https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B9%80%EC%86%8C%EC%9B%94>의 시 
〈실버들〉이 수양버들을 보고 지은 시이며^[59] 
<https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%88%98%EC%96%91%EB%B2%84%EB%93%A4#cite_note-62> 
, 시인 김용택 <https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B9%80%EC%9A%A9%ED%83%9D>이 
2009년에 펴낸 시집 제목이 《수양버들》이다.^[60] 
<https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%88%98%EC%96%91%EB%B2%84%EB%93%A4#cite_note-63> 
시인 김광규 
<https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B9%80%EA%B4%91%EA%B7%9C_%28%EC%8B%9C%EC%9D%B8%29>는 
시 〈4월의 가로수〉에서 전깃줄에 닿는다고 인간들이 가지치기를 해서 드러난, 
수양버들의 가지가 잘린 모습을 팔다리가 잘려 나간 모습으로 형상화하여, 인간 
문명의 파괴적 속성과 자연의 생명 복원력을 보여 주었다.

which uses ASCII space before the initial bracket, but not after. The 
font used (Apple SD Gothic Neo)  doesn't add space to the glyphs of 
these fullwidth characters. The lack of space after may make sense if 
punctuation follows, or the grammatical portions of 'word's or 
particles, such as in 〈4월의 가로수〉에서 . But it may be more general than 
that, since it includes the verb 'to be' in 《수양버들》이다.



I did also see locations where a fullwidth period or comma were followed 
by a fullwidth opening bracket, and both glyphs had additional space 
built in.  There was no ASCII space between.

I'll take a look at the few newspapers and such that i have here.

ri