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I was expecting the story of the magical ¥ path separator

• petee 4mo ago
  Would you mind sharing a related link? I'm finding it to be impossible to search "¥ path separator", the ¥ is stripped out by like every search engine even when quoted
  • Kwpolska 4mo ago
    The short version is, the DOS-era Japanese character sets had replaced \ with ¥, and modern Windows still shows paths as C:¥WINDOWS if you're using the Japanese locale.
  • jwilk 4mo ago
    Search for "yen sign path separator".
  • breppp 4mo ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29177000 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29177000