#554 backslash appears as yen symbol

[Jay]

in all parts of DrJava, from the interactions pane to the main code window, a backslash "\" appears on the screen as the symbol for the japanese yen "¥" (the Y with two lines through it).

The program still functions as if the ¥ were a \ , and if I highlight the ¥ and copy/paste it into Microsoft Word or any other program, it does appear as a \.

Its strange. What could possibly be causing this?

I have attached a screenshot of the interactions pane.

[Jay]

Screenshot of DrJava interactions pane with problem

[Mathias Ricken]

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Is this a Japanese version of Windows? Somehow, on Japanese operating systems, the Yen symbol is the same character as the backslash:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4204226

I haven't found a way around this, but I can't test it directly either -- I will probably need your help, so before I investigate in that direction, I would like to know that this is actually the problem.

[Jay]

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this is not a Japanese version of windows, however, i do have Chinese language pack installed so that I can type in chinese characters (for school). This bug occurs even when it is not in Chinese input mode, however.

Is there a way I can just tell DrJava to revert to the correct display of the backslash?

[Jay]

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By the way, it seems to be the opposite problem as in the post you linked me to --- they WANT the yen symbol instead of the backslash, but i want the backslash instead of the yen symbol.