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peteetoday at 2:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

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


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Kwpolskatoday at 3:03 PM

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.

jwilktoday at 4:05 PM

Search for "yen sign path separator".