Re: [tlug] katakana

[Stephen Lee <sl@example.com>]

"legend" <fukudam@example.com> wrote:
> 
> I am not an expert like Jim Breen, so I can't give you 
> a good reference. But from the user perspective
> (and experience), half-width katakana is not a widely
> used standard. Pretty much in any application
> (especially internet mail), it's not recommended
> to be used.

One place you can find it is bank ATM receipts.  Trying to read one of
those can easily give you an headache, though that is more because of
the unfamiliar run-on, all-katakana writing (whereas 'normal' writing is
hiragana+kanji) than the width of the characters.

Stephen