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===Fullwidth form===
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In [[CJK]] computing, [[graphic character]]s are traditionally classed into '''fullwidth''' (in [[Taiwan]] and [[Hong Kong]]: 全形; elsewhere: [[wikt:全角|全角]]) and [[Halfwidth form|halfwidth]] (in [[Taiwan]] and [[Hong Kong]]: 半形; elsewhere: [[wikt:半角|半角]]) characters. With fixed-width fonts (now called ''bi-width'' by Westerners {{citation needed}}), a halfwidth character occupies half the width of a fullwidth character, hence the name.
In the days of [[computer terminal]]s and [[text mode]] computing, characters were normally laid out in a grid, often 80 columns by 24 or 25 lines. Each character was displayed as a small [[dot matrix]], often about 8 [[pixel]]s wide, and an [[SBCS]] (single byte character set) was generally used to encode characters of western languages.
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