Halfwidth and fullwidth forms error

I am the original poster of the thread titled "How can I solve this space error?" below.

I haven't received any responses yet, so I've decided to open a new thread to provide more context.

As you can see from the image, this issue is related to full-width and half-width characters.

For some reason (possibly related to saving, based on my experience), what was being typed in half-width in korean suddenly changes to full-width.

Restarting Trados resolves the issue temporarily, but it recurs during further work. I have tried reinstalling the program, but that hasn't resolved the issue.

Screenshot of Trados Studio interface showing a text input field with the abbreviation 'NMT' and a blinking cursor.



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[edited by: RWS Community AI at 4:54 AM (GMT 0) on 13 Jan 2025]
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    Tricky one... so some guesses to try and be helpful.

    • Try changing the font to ensure you are using a fully unicode compliant font.  Some fonts may automatically replace half-width characters with their full-width counterparts if the original font lacks support for the requested character. 

    • If you're typing in Korean and accidentally switch to a mode that defaults to full-width characters, this might cause sudden changes.  This might be triggered by pressing a hotkey unintentionally.

    • Some IMEs attempt to "normalise" text to match expected character widths, especially in mixed-script text.  Perhaps this is at play here?

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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