I remember changing my Windows XP machine to Japanese in order to learn the language (protip: try to learn the characters for the common things before doing thi

I remember changing my Windows XP machine to Japanese in order to learn the language (protip: try to learn the characters for the common things before doing this) and suddenly all my file paths had ¥ in them. I thought I must have messed something up, it was very jarring to see. I think the yens everywhere were more of a reason for me to revert the change than the fact that I essentially locked myself out of changing any of the settings that I had not yet memorised...