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Rambling ahead: the spot occupied by \ is the ¥ mark on Japanese keyboards. I mention it because a Windows 98 toaster I used for Myspace and transferring songs
by rangibaby 11y ago
Rambling ahead: the spot occupied by \ is the ¥ mark on Japanese keyboards. I mention it because a Windows 98 toaster I used for Myspace and transferring songs to my iPod displayed paths like this: C:¥foo¥bar¥. Which reminds me of another adventure:
The Japanese keyboard I use requires pressing shift to get a tilde (the tilde spot is occupied by a key to switch input methods on some keyboards and nothing on others).
Tilde opens the console in Doom 3, and it didn't like having it on a shifted character, and there was no way of rebinding the key. Long story short, I had to change the key in the source and recompile it to something else. Thanks id for open sourcing your games :-)
- themodelplumber 11y agoThat's cool, I remember the yen signs. I lived in Japan for a while and studied Japanese but have never used an actual Japanese keyboard (just various IMEs over the years). What keyboard do you use? [/guy who was just modding NIBBLES.BAS yesterday]
- rangibaby 11y agoI mainly use the small Apple keyboards, which are the OADG 109 key layout minus the numpad. Symbols are in different places compared to overseas keyboards (@ is to the right of P and doesn't require pressing shift, and ctrl and caps lock are swapped). It's not a problem except with old or lazy apps that expect them to be in a certain places, like my DOOM3 example. There are a bunch of different Japanese layouts actually, a Japanese company makes keyboards with blank caps so you can use which ever one you like: http://www.pfusystems.com/embedded-keyboard/hhkb/index.html http://www.pfusystems.com/embedded-keyboard/hhkb/index.html There is kana input, but I have yet to meet someone who uses that instead of an IME. I see a lot of people using it on their phones, though.