This sounds like a problem with the Windows 10 Japanese keyboard. Have you complained to Microsoft? Perhaps they will fix the problem. The best that this group could do is give you a workaround.
Rose Byrne Sent from my new iPad > On Aug 15, 2022, at 11:20 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz <ny...@hb.tp1.jp> wrote: > > On 2022/08/15 19:07, Regina Henschel wrote: >> Hi Thomas, >> >> additions: >> >> Are you sure \ is not on your keyboard? If I switch to a Japanese keyboard >> layout, I see a \ as left most key in the lower row and as right most key in >> the middle row. >> >> You can install an additional language in Windows and then you can switch >> the keyboard layout. >> >> Kind regards >> Regina >> > Good evening > and I thank everybody for their help. > Summary: > * Yes, my KB does have a backslash. But pressing it (no matter what KB layout > it use) ALWAYS produces a \. They are supposed to be identical. > * I thought about inserting a backslash via symbols, but that alsow produces > a \; in the Find dialog it does not work. > * Neither does copying the "tab portion" from any piece of text. > * I do not use Linux, so those commands do not help me. > * This operation apparently does not work in a text editor either. > * I thought about replacing "space[" with something like "spacekk" (with or > without the space). THAT does not work either. > * I just tried to find simply "[" (without the quotes). > * Unchecking "Regular expressions" DOES find the brackets, but then inserts > "\t[" (where the \ is a backslash). But that is not what I want .. and not > helpful. > > Does this really have to be so difficult? > In the hope, there IS a way to accomplish this. > Thank you. > Thomas > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy