[Tor3]

Ah, full width and half width.. I don't mind Japanese web pages in general, in fact I like a lot about them, but when it comes to filling out forms it can be horrible. Just last month my wife tried to book a hotel room in the only hotel available near a particular airport in Japan, and the online form required her to create an account and a password (the first question is, of course, "why?", just for booking a hotel room?). The problem was that the site rejected all her attempts for passwords, insisting on "half width ASCII". My wife is Japanese and her iPad is Japanese, and she has lived most of her life in Japan, but she had no idea how to get that to work. We tried absolutely everything we could think of, all attempts rejected. In the end she had to phone the hotel and book that way, which they grudgingly accepted (at a higher price). I still haven't figured out what "half width ASCII" is supposed to mean. Not visibly, I think I get that, but technically. What kind of charset was she supposed to use, and how to get the iPad to output it?