On Friday, Oct 18, 2002, at 22:25 Asia/Tokyo, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Right. The smart-ass Mail.app (among other *.app) does this to me when your input method is Japanese and '\' is typed. I have configured Kotoeri (the input method) to be English-friendly --does Kana-Kanji conversion when and only when caps lock is set (much more convenient than toggling Keyboard script with command-space) but even that won't stop replacing slashes with yen mark. You have to get Kotoeri out of picture, something you would so easily forget in apps like Mail.On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:21:07PM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote:AFAIK, CP¥d+ should be avoided for any data exchanged in the Net so you
^ Yen sign? That should be a backslash, as in CP\d+ ?
[I seem to remember something about some Japanese character sets swappingAs you see now '\' appears correctly because I now toggled off Kotoeri now. I usually notice this on Terminal.app because the difference is critical but not Mail.app
\ and ¥ so that the Yen sign had a 7 bit value.
Well, at least with MacOS X you can TELL THE DIFFERENCE even though it is sometimes annoying; Win* won't even let you notice that and you are trapped in "Yen jail" :)
Dan the Man with Too Many (Script|Encoding|Charset)s to Fiddle With