This, of course, means that a ton of Japanese Windows users don't actually know how to type their own currency sign, because they keep typing \ and Microsoft helpfully displays it as ¥. Except, you know, no other OS does that.
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I regularly get Japanese websites displaying or e-mailing prices in \ This is all Microsoft's fault because they literally have a hack in Windows to display the \ codepoint as ¥ in Japanese locales/fonts because Japanese people were used to it looking like that in DOS/Win9x.https://twitter.com/dekisu/status/1269351644099153926 …
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...to be fair Microsoft tends to have a TON of software issues related to legacy stuff.
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imagine all dropping legacy conventions, it won't be windows anymore.
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tbh, lain won't care about that shit, she uses operating systems from apple. or did those do the same shit?
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In DOS, codepage 437 or 850 was used. Both have the ¥ in it. And since Windows, codepage 1252 is usually used, which also has it. Since NT, Microsoft is using Unicode-16 internally, with even less issues. Why should this be MS‘s fault? International coding is hard.
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Because Windows is doing this as a hack on *Unicode* systems. They are literally displaying the wrong glyph for a particular Unicode code point, on purpose. Only on Japanese locales. That's a violation of the Unicode standard.
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Same in Korea with the ₩, it's always fun trying to navigate to C:₩Users₩Sky₩My Documents.
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it can't be entirely blamed on Microsoft. ISO 646 was the original sin.
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Korea has the same thing for ₩
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But this could be handy! I was helping a friend of mine to program the software which uses small character LCD display. We needed any currency sign other than $. I tried to output "\" to the display and it worked: ¥ was shown!
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