Will halfwidth punctuation ever be replaced with fullwidth punctuation?

I've noticed a lot of punctuation in Pleco is halfwidth and not fullwidth like most Chinese style standards demand, for instance:

- 「、」 vs. 「、」

- 「;」 vs. 「;」

- 「。」 vs. 「。」

- 「,」 vs. 「,」

Will these be replaced at some point?
 

mikelove

皇帝
Staff member
Are you noticing these in Chinese-Chinese dictionaries or Chinese-English ones?

The latter are a deliberate decision, done with the encouragement of our typographer - large gaps in Chinese text that's shown mixed with English text look odd.
 

Peter

榜眼
多功能成语:

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mikelove

皇帝
Staff member
Checked the errata file for that dictionary and we already have fixing that half-width punctuation on our to-do list :)
 
Are you noticing these in Chinese-Chinese dictionaries or Chinese-English ones?

The latter are a deliberate decision, done with the encouragement of our typographer - large gaps in Chinese text that's shown mixed with English text look odd.

Yeah, it's in a lot of C-C too, just not super consistent one way or the other.
 
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