RFE: Would like \u005C displayed as Yen Sign on Japanese systems

Name: gsC80088 Date: 01/19/99


Japanese Yen currency character displayed as
backslash in Appletviewer and Java plug-in.
Netscape and IE4.0 displays it correctly.
I found the difference in font.properties.ja.
Cause is
'exclusion.sansserif.0=00b7-00b7,0100-ffff'
in font.properties.ja
It should be
'exclusion.sansserif.0=005c-005c,00b7-00b7,0100-ffff'.

[sample source]
import java.awt.Graphics;
public class PrintCurrency extends java.applet.Applet{
String message;
        public void init() {
                message = "\\";
                resize(400,50);
        }
        public void paint(java.awt.Graphics g){
                g.drawString(message,50,20);
        }
}
(Review ID: 42665)
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Aother customer has repored that the Yen currency is appeared as
backslash on Swing components such as JTextField.
The customer has used Java Plug-in 1.1.2_001(JRE1.1.7B, Swing1.1)
under Win32 platform.
You can easily see this behavior with the following simple Swing
applet.

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;

public class TestField extends JApplet {

    public void init() {
      JTextField tf = new JTextField("JTextField");

      getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout());
      getContentPane().add(tf);

    }
}


Name: yyT116575 Date: 07/16/2001


version "1.4.0-beta"
(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0-beta-b65)
HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0-beta-b65, mixed mode)

I am using japanese win-98 os. In this environment wherever I type backslash it gives yen symbol except in the text field. I want it to show yen symbol instead of backslash in textfield also. How shall I do that.
(Review ID: 128169)
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