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Subject: Re: Currency Symbols (summary)
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Date: Sun, 13-Sep-87 11:05:34 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 13 11:05:34 1987
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Summary: Japanese use backslash for yen

In article <2395@zeus.TEK.COM> dant@tekla (Dan Tilque) writes:
> No one mentioned what the Japanese do to get a Yen symbol.  I suspect that
> they just use a capital Y.

When the Japanese use a 7- or 8-bit ASCII-style character set, they
replace the backslash character with the yen symbol (a capital Y
for Yen, like S for Solidus or L for Libra, with one or more
usually two horizontal strokes through the vertical bar).

This took a lot of getting used to for me (I use Sony and NEC
micros around the house for various things), especially when
(i) programming in C and (ii) looking at all the cute pictures
that appear in people's .signatures made with /-| and \.

In the 16-bit full JIS Japanese character set, I suspect they
do the same and just add a backslash somewhere further on, but
this is just conjecture.
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