The Old New Thing

October 14, 2005 - The Old New Thing

The history of the path separator in Japanese and Korean Windows

October 14, 2005 Oct 14, 2005 10/14/05
Raymond Chen
Why is the path separator on Japanese Windows the ¥ character? And why is it the ₩ character on Korean Windows? I've been prodding Michael Kaplan to delve into the history of this quirk, and he finally gave in to my repeated badgering. (Additional discussion on the Korean Won sign, the Japanese Yen sign, and currency symbols in...

Thread affinity of user interface objects, part 5: Object clean-up

October 14, 2005 Oct 14, 2005 10/14/05
Raymond Chen
The window manager and GDI objects as a general rule will automatically destroy objects created by a process when that process terminates. (The window manager also destroys windows when their owner threads exit.) Note, however, that this is a safety net and not an excuse for you to leak resources in your own program with the attitude of "Oh, ...