4
votes

Many Japanese fonts have a special fixed-width variant of the standard ASCII latin characters that are half as wide as the font's standard fixed-width for Kanji/Kana characters. This allows you to vertically line up Latin and Japnaese text by simply using 2 Latin chars per Japanese character. This is called something like "half-width latin". There's an accompanying "full-width latin" where the characters are super-wide to line up exactly with each Kanji/Kana character. My question: Is there a special region of Unicode designed to do the same thing for Hangul? Hangul characters are usually much narrower than Kanji, so you would need a narrower hangul-sized Latin to do fixed character alignment.

2

2 Answers

3
votes

Nope. As I understand it Hangul is typeset with proportional-width spaces and punctuation, so the Hangul glyphs don't even line up with each other, let alone interposed Latin and numbers.

1
votes

You will probably need to use a Hangul font that specifically include half-width Latin glyphs like http://www.ascenderfonts.com/font/batangche-korean.aspx or http://www.ascenderfonts.com/font/dotumche-korean.aspx I think that this is font/glyph specific, not related to the Unicode encodings. The two font URLs above allow you to paste in a line of text so you can try some mixed Latin and Korean text to see if it does what you want.