[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50542] Can't type backslash on JIS Keyboard

[Andrew Janke]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #50542 (project octave):

So, I bought a Japanese keyboard (a Logicool k120 USB keyboard) and tested it
with my macOS 10.14.4 Mac. (I have the Mac configured with English as my
primary language, and no secondary languages. My $LANG is "en_US.UTF-8".) When
I plugged it in and the keyboard-discovery wizard popped up, I hit the keys it
asked me too, it detected it as a "JIS" keyboard, and I accepted that
default.

In a Homebrew-installed Octave 5.1.0 in CLI mode run inside iTerm or
Terminal.app, hitting the yen key produces a backslash.

In a GUI Octave from Octave.app 4.4.1 or 5.1.0 beta 3, in the Command Window,
hitting the yen key produces a Yen symbol, and Option-Yen produces a
backslash.

I don't have a bare-metal MacPorts setup that I can use to test the MacPorts
installation of Octave, but I suspect it would be the same.

I can't reproduce Anonymous's "move to beginning of line" behavior. Since that
was reported against 4.4.0 and not 4.4.1, maybe this can just be closed as
fixed?

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