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[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:57:00PM +0000, t.clarke wrote:
> I never realised that there were upper and lower-case numerals; you learn
> something new every day.

There is a serious point here.  Unicode has double-width (Japanese)
numerals and [Roman] letters.  If you are typing something in
Japanese, then just tab to a field which expects a number or some
English text, it's easy to accidentally enter them, because Japanese
input is modal and you're in the wrong mode.

Examples from a website I run below.

This is a huge pain for website developers, and non-Japanese
developers frequently overlook it.

Rich.

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