Message: 1 Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:19:50 +0900 From: Jiachen Yang <farseerfc@gmail.com> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@archlinux.org> Subject: Re: [arch-general] howto change change yen character to backslash using xkb Message-ID: <CAO+sC=v=w7AXQo76efpBBr1c1+uj9x4o64kd6jqapgh_e5JJMw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Hi Shadrock

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From my understanding the backslash character can be rendered as Yen mark in several Japanese fonts. This is due to compatibility reason for Japanese vendors stole the backslash codepoint to reuse as Yen mark in their early font design. For example I can reproduce this using "MS Gothic" font in lxterminal. You can comfirms this by copying the Yen mark outof lxterminal into thunderbird/openoffice, to see whether it still rendered as Yen mark.

If this is the case, your keyboard setting doesn't need change. Just change your font to a non-Japanese font (and be careful with fontconfig fallbacks).

2016-10-11 16:48 GMT+09:00 niya levi via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org>:

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hi everyone

i have installed arch with lxde ,

the keyboard is setup all the keys are setup except one the backslash key,

in thunderbird and openoffice a backslash char is displayed

but in the lxterminal and geany(ide editor) it displayes as a yen char,

i added Option "XKbOptions" "yen:backslash"

to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf

but no change,

is the line i added to 00-keyboard.conf incorrect ?

i understand that the console is not affected by xorg so i'm also looking for a solution there as well.

shadrock

thanks

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Hi Shadrock

From my understanding the backslash character can be rendered as Yen mark in several Japanese fonts. This is due to compatibility reason for Japanese vendors stole the backslash codepoint to reuse as Yen mark in their early font design. For example I can reproduce this using "MS Gothic" font in lxterminal. You can comfirms this by copying the Yen mark outof lxterminal into thunderbird/openoffice, to see whether it still rendered as Yen mark.

If this is the case, your keyboard setting doesn't need change. Just change your font to a non-Japanese font (and be careful with fontconfig fallbacks).

2016-10-11 16:48 GMT+09:00 niya levi via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org>:

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hi everyone

i have installed arch with lxde ,

the keyboard is setup all the keys are setup except one the backslash key,

in thunderbird and openoffice a backslash char is displayed

but in the lxterminal and geany(ide editor) it displayes as a yen char,

i added Option "XKbOptions" "yen:backslash"

to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf

but no change,

is the line i added to 00-keyboard.conf incorrect ?

i understand that the console is not affected by xorg so i'm also looking for a solution there as well.

shadrock

thanks

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---------------------------------------------- ????????????? ? ?? (YANG Jiachen) ?560-0043???????1-7 E-mail? yang@osipp.osaka-u.ac.jp TEL?080-3853-2770 ----------------------------------------------- Through yes. But it acts like backslash, so don't worry about them.

hi the notebook is a samsung np n140 with the keyboard set to uk, i changed the font configuration and encoding in geany and got it to display the correct character for the console i added FONT=Lat2-Terminus16 to vconsole.conf, lxterminal now displays the backslash correctly and all the characters look good. thanks shadrock