[Tex/LaTex] Full-width characters with latex

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I'm actually writing some article about vaporwave and aesthetic for a school project.
As I used to write all kind of report with latex, I wanted to write this with latex as well.

In this article, I have to explain the conecpt of "aesthetic art" and furthermore, I would like to show the famous "full width font" (which consists in writing only using unicode full width characters).

For example, Ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ instead of Aesthetic.

I'm using overleaf right now, and I can't write full width unicode in it (Package ucs Error: Unknown Unicode character), but I bet this is not linked to overleaf.

I looked on the web for some packages allowing the use of full width characters, but with no result.

Do you know any workaround to do this ? Or is latex not the good choice to do that ?

Thank you,

B.O

Best Answer

If you load an asian font via the CJK package and use xelatex you can insert real fullwith characters into your document:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\setCJKmainfont{SimSun}
\begin{document}
\symbol{65313}\symbol{65317}\symbol{65331}\symbol{65332}\symbol{65320}\symbol{65317}\symbol{65332}\symbol{65321}\symbol{65315} not aesthetic
\end{document}

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Once you have loaded CJK and the asian font you could also copy-paste fullwidth characters taken from the web. In my case it screwed TeXStudio so I used the character codes.

For a fullwidth characters map see: http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_full-width_chars.html

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