> Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:19:50 +0900 > From: Jiachen Yang <farseerfc@xxxxxxxxx> > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: howto change change yen character to > backslash using xkb > Message-ID: > <CAO+sC=v=w7AXQo76efpBBr1c1+uj9x4o64kd6jqapgh_e5JJMw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> 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 >> > -- ---------------------------------------------- ????????????? ? ?? > (YANG Jiachen) ?560-0043???????1-7 E-mail? yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > TEL?080-3853-2770 ----------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 > 17:39:32 +0900 From: Dragon ?floppy1? ryu <knight.ryu12@xxxxxxxxx> To: > General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: howto change change yen character to > backslash using xkb Message-ID: > <A4C0ECCD-33CD-490F-A20F-E9EC85354DAC@xxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: > text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp 2016/10/11 17:19?Jiachen Yang via > arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ??????: >> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> >>> 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 >>> >> -- >> >> ---------------------------------------------- >> ????????????? >> ? ?? (YANG Jiachen) >> ?560-0043???????1-7 >> E-mail? yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> 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
