Romaji yen sign in Terminal in the UTF-8 encoding
Hello all,
I‘m setting up a MacBook Pro with a Japanese keyboard running Mac OS X 10.6.2. In Romaji mode, the Japanese keyboard has a dedicated yen sign (¥) key, and Option-¥ produces a backslash (\). In Terminal, for some reason, the ¥ key produces \ without the Option modifier. (Option-¥ also produces \ in Terminal, which is normal behavior.)
A similar situation was discussed in an older topic, http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10665836 , where the problem was diagnosed as having the Shift JIS encoding enabled in Terminal. However, this doesn‘t mirror my situation, since the only encoding that is enabled in my Terminal is UTF-8 – and there‘s certainly a yen sign available in UTF-8.
I am able to type other UTF-8 characters in Terminal in Romaji mode; for example, I can type Option-e e to produce é, and entering the command *echo é | od -x* within Terminal shows that the correct UTF-8 byte sequence is generated for é. Since the command *echo -e '\0302\0245'* within Terminal will produce a yen sign there, the problem seems to be connected to the key mapping rather than to a stty interface problem.
Is there anyone running 10.6.2 with a Japanese keyboard who can type the ¥ key in Romaji mode in Terminal with the UTF-8 encoding enabled, and have a yen sign appear rather than a backslash?
I‘m setting up a MacBook Pro with a Japanese keyboard running Mac OS X 10.6.2. In Romaji mode, the Japanese keyboard has a dedicated yen sign (¥) key, and Option-¥ produces a backslash (\). In Terminal, for some reason, the ¥ key produces \ without the Option modifier. (Option-¥ also produces \ in Terminal, which is normal behavior.)
A similar situation was discussed in an older topic, http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10665836 , where the problem was diagnosed as having the Shift JIS encoding enabled in Terminal. However, this doesn‘t mirror my situation, since the only encoding that is enabled in my Terminal is UTF-8 – and there‘s certainly a yen sign available in UTF-8.
I am able to type other UTF-8 characters in Terminal in Romaji mode; for example, I can type Option-e e to produce é, and entering the command *echo é | od -x* within Terminal shows that the correct UTF-8 byte sequence is generated for é. Since the command *echo -e '\0302\0245'* within Terminal will produce a yen sign there, the problem seems to be connected to the key mapping rather than to a stty interface problem.
Is there anyone running 10.6.2 with a Japanese keyboard who can type the ¥ key in Romaji mode in Terminal with the UTF-8 encoding enabled, and have a yen sign appear rather than a backslash?
MacBookPro5,5, Mac OS X (10.6.2), Japanese keyboard
