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Xu Tan

Thanks for the explanation. Just a bit correction on the issue itself.

The reason why backslash is a yen-sign Japanese decided to override backslash code point in ASCII with the yen-sign. Similar thing happens in Korean, German, Danish, French and Spanish in their variants of ISO 646: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash#Co....

Therefore it has nothing to do with East-Asian locales. Simplifed and traditional Chinese region all display backslash as the original backslash.

However this is indeed a revelation of how messed-up Windows localization is due to backward compatibility.