December 23, 2003

Backslash on Mac OS X

(edit) | 11:05 PM | permalink | (6 comments, 0 trackbacks) | Categories: Technical Stuff

I don't know what imbecile at Apple created the German keymap for a PowerBook running Mac OS X, but after just having wasted about half an hour of my life with trying to find a way to enter a backslash ('\') on this damn thing, I found out that it's Shift-Alt-7. Should've been obvious? Right.

Readers have left 6 Comments:
Comment from Volker Weber at Dec 23, 2003 11:18 PM:

The character map is fine. Not printing it on the keys is not.

Alt-7 is pipe, so Shift-Alt-7 may even make sense. :-)

Comment from Volker Weber at Dec 23, 2003 11:32 PM:

Do you happen to know Keyboard Viewer? > http://vowe.net/archives/003958.html

Comment from Stefan Tilkov at Dec 24, 2003 12:30 AM:

Thank you *so* much - no, I didn't know about this.
And I managed to find out how to activate it in less than three minutes ;-)

Comment from Stefan Tilkov at Dec 24, 2003 12:43 AM:

BTW, thinking about it some more I guess that whoever decided to require a key combination like that for a character like backslash never considered that somebody might use these babies for programming tasks ...

Comment from brad at Dec 24, 2003 6:22 AM:

well duh, its an apple. they gotta do everything different, which usually means the hard way

Comment from Stefan Tilkov at Dec 24, 2003 1:04 PM:

If this remains the most annoying 'problem' I have with this machine, it compares pretty well to all the Wintel boxes I've use before ;-)

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