On 2013/10/27 4:48, Martin J. Dürst wrote: > One thing that I have never checked personally, but which I heard from a > former colleague who knew a lot of character encoding trivia and > oddities, is that (at least at some point a few years ago) Japanese MS > Word would change U+00A6 to U+005D without asking the user. Possibly the > idea was that this way, the data could be more easily converted back > from Unicode to Shift_JIS. But in terms of moving away from using U+005D > with a Yen glyyh, it was definitely counterproductive.
> Regards, Martin. As far as I can see, - the standard Japanese keyboard layout creates \ U+005C if in Latin mode, even if the keycap might have a ¥ Yen symbol. - the IME, however, will offer to choose either \ or ¥ interactively, if in appropriate mode. - the font MS Mincho has a ¥ Yen glyph at the U+005C position, even in font version 5.01 shipped with Windows 7. The feeling of an automatic substitution done by Word might come from the default MS Word settings - "detect language automatically" and - "use MS Mincho as default font" for Japanese text. So it's not a substitution of the codepoints but of the glyphs only (which is of course bad enough). If the character is formatted with "Arial", a backslash should appear again. Best Regards, Albrecht.
