However, I filed a Win 7 bug report with Microsoft yesterday on
a
desktop theme-dependent rendering of path separators displayed in
the
app's status bar, where the backslash renders as the Yen symbol.
Most
problematic themes are Aero Desktop themes.
While
tracking down the problem, I ran across some information that
might
be relevant to your issue (but I haven't thought this through):
"In
the Japanese editions of Microsoft operating systems, the yen sign
in
code page 932 character encoding has the same byte value as the
backslash
in ASCII. It is also used wherever a backslash is used, such
as the
directory separator character and the general escape
character,[2]
essentially making it a backslash with a yen sign look,
a peculiarity
that stems from JIS X 0201."
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A5#Code_page_932>Given
the strong suspicion that code page 932 is leaking into the US
locale,
it's conceivable that it's also leaking into other parts of
the
Windows code base where it shouldn't.
In other words, I raise the
notion that you might be facing a Windows
code page bug rather than
being a Unicode issue.
Best regards,
Paul
