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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 …
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.
Ah-ha, I had wondered why I sometimes see ¥ as a path separator in screenshots.
Shift-JIS stuck the ¥ sign in place of the \ in ASCII, which is how it happened in DOS/9x. The rest is Microsoft being religiously opposed to breaking backwards compatibility, no matter how gross of a hack they have to use for it, nor how much they make @FakeUnicode cry.
Thanks for the explanation, I was wondering for years, why some applications would have a "¥" instead of a "\" in there configuration files...
I was going to ask about exactly this... thank you 
hooray for character encodings!
Oh ! That’s explain why when you enable Japanese on old windows (like xp, I don’t know if it happens for later version) to be able to launch Japanese software the explorer is messed up when displaying files paths ? Something like c:¥windows¥system32¥
For consideration: YUSCII/CROSCII/... (Yugoslav/Croatian/...) which used šŠ for [{, ćĆ for ]}, đĐ for |\, čČ for ~^ and žŽ for `@ C:http://xn--doscommand-ukbd.COMđdosđcommand.COM is a cute childhood memory. Thankfully I was too young to write: int main() Š char cš64ć; printf("Đn"); Ć
Oh my god.
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