Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Japanese term or phrase:
半角英数字
English translation:
half-width alpha numerics/ characters
Added to glossary by
Roderick Anderson
Jan 22, 2010 21:00
14 yrs ago
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Japanese term
半角英数字
Japanese to English
Bus/Financial
Computers (general)
Web site terminology
Could someone with expertise in computer/web-site building terminology please tell me how this is commonly translated?
Is it "half-width Roman characters and numerals"
or
"ASCII characters"?
Thank you in advance.
Is it "half-width Roman characters and numerals"
or
"ASCII characters"?
Thank you in advance.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +6 | half-width alpha numerics/ characters |
Roderick Anderson
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| 4 +5 | single-byte alphanumeric characters |
Yuki Okada
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| 5 | alphanumeric characters |
James Kast
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| 3 | English one-byte character |
summereye
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Change log
Jan 25, 2010 07:40: Roderick Anderson Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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9 mins
Roderick Anderson
Japan
Japan
Native in English
Works in field
Japan
J to E Science & Engineering Translation
Native in: English 
Works in: Japanese to English, English
Related KudoZ points
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3
Selected
half-width alpha numerics/ characters
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Note added at 12 mins (2010-01-22 21:12:17 GMT)
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"Alpha numeric" should be "alphanumeric". Sorry about that.
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Note added at 12 mins (2010-01-22 21:12:17 GMT)
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"Alpha numeric" should be "alphanumeric". Sorry about that.
Note from asker:
| Thank you very much! |
3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks to everyone for their input! Opinion seems to be almost evenly split on this one. "
+5
7 mins
Yuki Okada
Canada
Canada
Native in Japanese
Works in field
Canada
Engineering translator
Native in: Japanese
Works in: English to Japanese, Japanese to English
Related KudoZ points
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8
single-byte alphanumeric characters
This is what you are looking for.
Note from asker:
| Great. Thank you very much! |
Peer comment(s):
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Yasu Hosomatsu
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Dr. M. S. Niranjan
: This is definitely it.
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keiko miyazaki
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Miho Ohashi
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Yasutomo Kanazawa
: single-byte, double-byte, 半角、全角
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gcpradhan1
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Friedrich Reinold
: "Single-byte" (単一バイト) refers to the internal representation of the character, not the "width" of how it appears.
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That's right, and single-byte... is how these characters are commonly referred to. Appearance is not necessarily the question. Direct translation of "half-width..." is sometimes used, but single-byte.. is the prevalent term.
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2 days 8 hrs
English one-byte character
Another words. I think including English is better because there are many languages in the world.
Example sentence:
Enter English one-byte character in "Proxy Server Address".
It should be described within 300 words in English one-byte character.
2721 days
James Kast
Japan
Japan
Native in English
Specializes in field
Japan
Looking Forward to Working with You
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: Japanese to English
alphanumeric characters
Since in English typing, there is only one type of alphanumeric character used, there is no need to say "half-width" or "single-byte." In fact, adding this terminology makes things unnecessarily confusing because there is no such thing as a full-width character outside of typing English letters in a Japanese input mode.
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