Cannot write \ in cells (text and code cells)

[MoritzImendoerffer]

I do not know why but suddenly the combination ALTGr + ? (equal to ) does not work anymore. The mouse cursor does change to a cross when pressing the combination but I cannot find a corresponding keyboard shortcut. As you can see from the title, I can write backslashes in the same browser.

Python 3.5.2 |Anaconda custom (64-bit)| (default, Jul 5 2016, 11:41:13) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)]

Any ideas ?

[takluyver]

This may be related to #2379. There seems to be a regression for users of non-English keyboard layouts. Possibly to do with CodeMirror. Unfortunately, none of the core devs have the right kind of keyboard to reproduce the issue, so we need someone with such a keyboard to dive into it.

[jan-glx]

@takluyver No need to change the hardware keyboard, just change the layout through your os?

[Carreau]

No, we tried with changing layout. The browser uses location information of keys not key code for the buggy part of the code. We actually need a non English physical layout.

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[jan-glx]

Oh ok. https://w3c.github.io/uievents/tools/key-event-viewer.html shows no difference between my Laptop's German QWERTZ and my USB US QWERTY for minus labeled ß ? \ or - _ nor for RightAlt labeled AltGr or Alt but between different Layouts and between chrome and FF...

[ruboerner]

I have found a workaround: Type "´" (acute) before AltGr-ß!

[GeoloeG-IsT]

@ruboerner ThX for the tip but it would be better to fix this issue once and for all for the sake of the poor souls forced to use a German keyboard... (being German or Not)

[tobschaffer]

Hi i am having the same problem and thank you for the workaround. Would be nice to have the issue fixed, on previous versions i did not have the problem.

[tschmidt83]

Same issue here, but the proposed workaround is not working for me (MS Edge, Win10, using jupyter Notebook 5.0.0, anconda 4.3.24, python 3.6.0).

[watercrossing]

Same issue here, but it works in Firefox and not in Chrome. UK keyboard with German keyboard layout, running UK Firefox on UK Win 8.1 works. Changing Windows keyboard layout to UK and it works in chrome too.

[takluyver]

If you're on notebook 5.0 or older, try upgrading to 5.1.

[watercrossing]

Yes, upgrading to notebook-5.2.0 fixed the issue. I skipped 5.1. Thanks.

[RaspPiPython]

Just installed the notebook last week and I had this issue too. For me, the workaround is "^" though. Hope that helps. Still thanks @ruboerner for giving me the idea.

[jenssupan]

i take the asci code... alt+92 --> \

[xeedoc]

Hi, I'm currently living in Japan, but using an English version of Windows. I am having the same problem except that it produces a"￥" instead of the ""

Typing in a browser, "" shows up, but in the notebook, the yen sign shows up.

I tried the asci code alt+92, but it returns with the yen sign again.

Any suggestions? I'm on notebook 5.6.0