Re: Handling unicode file names on Windows

[marbux <marbux@...>]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Owen Shepherd <owen.shepherd@e43.eu> wrote:

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> Windows 7 will translate Yen -> Backslash when going from Unicode to JIS, but keep backslashes as backslashes when translating from JIS to Unicode.
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> My suspicion here is that in fact you have a Japanese font being used in your app's status bar. For said fonts, the backslash character is associated with the Yen glyph, and so will display as a Yen sign.
>

Thanks. I'll do some checking. I've only had this machine for about a
month though, and I'm fairly certain I never touched the default font
settings. But at my age, memory isn't a reliable source of
information. :-)

Best regards,

Paul