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Ian_Lee -

Some Japanese-based websites, i.e. hotel, will ask customers to input their names by
半角拉丁字母 (half corner Latin alphabet) on their Chinese websites after making
reservation. Does anyone know what is 半角拉丁字母?



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zhwj -

This refers to the "byte-case" of the latin characters - full-width vs. half-width.

全角：ｆｕｌｌ－ｗｉｄｔｈ，　ｄｏｕｂｌｅ－ｂｙｔｅ　（ＤＢＣ　ｃ�
��ｓｅ）
半角:half-width, single-byte (SBC case).

I imagine some sites request half-width characters since their systems aren't equipped to
manipulate strings of double-byte latin text - to do comparisons and indexing and such.












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