- From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:01:24 +0900
- To: Barry Caplan <bcaplan@i18n.com>
- Cc: nelocsig@egroups.com, www-international@w3.org
At 10:41 00/02/15 -0500, Barry Caplan wrote: > At 04:49 PM 2/15/00 +0900, Stuart Woodward wrote: > > >This is a holdover > >from the hardware word processor world which could only print in two sizes. > > This is not correct. Normal Japanese is written this way and has been for > hundreds, maybe almost a thousand years. It has nothing to do with computers. This is definitely not correct. Half-width Kana was introduced at the start of computerization, where it was too expensive to deal with Kanji. Before that, it would be extremely surprised if there were any half-width kana. Latin letters were definitely not used for hundreds of years (except maybe in a dictionary or two and a few other works around 1600), and in print, usually proportional type is used. Regards, Martin. #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, World Wide Web Consortium #-#-# mailto:duerst@w3.org http://www.w3.org
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