Automatic conversion of ¥ to \ on Japanese keyboard systems

[fjwillemsen]

Discussed in https://github.com/fjwillemsen/NativeOverleaf/discussions/21

^{Originally posted by phschury April 13, 2023} On Japanese keyboards, the backslash symbol (Unicode U+005C) key is replaced by a yen symbol (Unicode U+00A5) key. To input a backslash symbol requires pressing an alternate key in combination with the yen symbol key. I used to use TeXShop and it had a wonderful feature of automatically re-interpreting the yen symbol as a backslash symbol. I inquired with Overleaf about adding this feature, but they seemed disinclined. Would it be a terrible effort to incorporate into the Electron layer or such?

[fjwillemsen]

@phschury thank you for your detailed request. I've converted the discussion to an issue to attempt to implement this when I have time. I suppose you would only want this conversion to happen in the editor pane?

[phschury]

Thank you. This would be a feature only needed in the editor panel to ease TeX command codes.