@a1batross @mimorinka in Shift-JIS, ASCII backslash is changed to Yen symbol.

@mimorinka @Moon I can't find why it was replaced either.

@a1batross @mimorinka Because when computers were only seven-bit ASCII, if they didn't replace a character, then Japanese wouldn't get a Yen symbol at all. So every country had modifications of ASCII with different characters here and there.

here is more than you ever wanted to know on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_932_(Microsoft_Windows)#Single-byte_character_differences

@Moon @a1batross @mimorinka will we ever get *everyone* to use UTF-8?

@cell @a1batross @mimorinka Windows is UTF-16 internally.

@cell @Moon @mimorinka I think everything is Unicode now but legacy stuff like Windows command line still uses legacy codepages.

It's possible to override it with setlocale 65001 I think...