RK61 and Backslash

TLDR

To type backslash in Windows 10 on a RK61 keyboard, you must press ‘Ctrl-Alt-\’

Windows 10

I struggled with this for a while and the solution seems a little counter-intuative. When using an RK61 mechanical keyboard, it seems a little tricky to actually type the backslash character (not to be confused with forward slash ‘/’ which can be accessed by ensuring you are not in cursor keys mode (Fn-Enter) and pressing the up arrow key).

Although backslash is printed on the key as the left-hand alternate character alongside |, pressing with shift doesn’t work in the same way as it does with the square and curly brace keys for example.

I think this is due to the Fn-\ key combination being used to cycle around the lighting modes.

To type backslash you must press ‘Ctrl-Alt-\’. Obviously if you are in cursor keys mode, you would need to use the left hand Ctrl key.

macOS

macOS seems to behave more predicatably and the \ key does indeed produce a \ whereas, as expected, Shift-\ produces the | character.

Disclaimer

YMMV, my problems with backslash in Windows may well be down to localisation settings. The tests above were performed in both English (United Kingdom) and English (United States) keyboard language settings.