Doug Ewell wrote:
See, if you use any encoding of Unicode, you won't have this problem,
because U+005C is unequivocally the backslash and U+00A5 is
unequivocally the yen sign. There are no context-dependent "duals" in
Unicode.
Character issues are a lot more complicated than you can imagine.
As many Japanese type Yen sign, when he actually want to input
back slash, the JIS character of Yen sign is converted to unicode
character of Yen sign, which is not back slash, which was the
intention.
Here, it is not a problem of so complicated unicode but a rather
simple ASCII and JIS. Even I can't fully predict how disastrous
full deployment of unicode could be.
Masataka Ohta
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