Re: MS Global IME - most obscure and trivial bug/feature

Paul Blay wrote:
Paul D wrote:
On 2007-09-09 20:00:09 +0900, Paul Blay <blay.paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

I've noticed that when I try to type \\ in the 'Find' textbox
of Microsoft Excel's 'Find and Replace' dialog I sometimes, but
not that often, get ￥１￥ instead.

I've heard of an old font layout issue where certain Japanese fonts used to insert a yen symbol in place of the rarely used backslash. I'm astonished, though, that this mix-up would persist in Microsoft's software today, since everything should be using Unicode.

On my computer the above is

>> I've noticed that when I try to type
[half-width yen]x2
>> in the 'Find' textbox

and

>> not that often, get
[full-width yen][full-width 1][full-width yen]
>> instead.

Typing two backslashes while in Japanese full-width
input mode drops you into half-width 'direct input' mode
and changes the characters from full-width to half-width.

I find it faster to type [backslash][backslash][backspace][backspace]
than it is to use the mouse to select direct input on the IME
toolbar.

I suppose there should/could be a shorter short-cut but I've
never got round to looking for/making one.

What's wrong with Alt-tilde? Doesn't it work on a British keyboard?
.

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