[arch-general] howto change change yen character to backslash using xkb

[niya levi]

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> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:19:50 +0900
> From: Jiachen Yang <farseerfc at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [arch-general] howto change change yen character to
> 	backslash using xkb
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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 at archlinux.org>:
>
>> 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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> text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp 2016/10/11 17:19?Jiachen Yang via
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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 at archlinux.org>:
>>
>>> 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 at osipp.osaka-u.ac.jp
>> TEL?080-3853-2770
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> 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