On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Joel Rees wrote:

> This really doesn't answer your question, but the 8 bit katakana are
> deprecated in the Unicode world.

I know. And they don't exist at all in the ISO-2022-JP world. However,
they're extensively used in mobile development because they save a heck
of a lot of screen real estate, as well as some bandwidth, which is
important when your screen is eight lines of 20 (half-width) characters
and you're paying for each 128-byte packet you send.

It's going to be used for a while yet on websites for mobile phones.

> vim handles Japanese lately in some configurations, but I've never
> tried half-width katakana on it. Have you been able to save those
> characters from vim in the past?

Works great on Linux. It's just NetBSD that has the issue.

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