{"id":33753,"date":"2005-10-14T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/10\/14\/the-history-of-the-path-separator-in-japanese-and-korean-windows\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T12:59:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:59:26","slug":"20051014-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20051014-20\/?p=33753","title":{"rendered":"The history of the path separator in Japanese and Korean Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is the path separator on Japanese Windows the \u00a5 character? And why is it the \u20a9 character on Korean Windows? I&#8217;ve been prodding <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.miloush.net\/michkap\/archive\/\"> Michael Kaplan<\/a> to delve into the history of this quirk, and <a title=\"When is a backslash not a backslash?\" href=\"https:\/\/archives.miloush.net\/michkap\/archive\/2005\/09\/17\/469941.html\"> he finally gave in to my repeated badgering<\/a>. (Additional discussion on the <a title=\"Whats up with the Korean (Unicode) sort?\" href=\"https:\/\/archives.miloush.net\/michkap\/archive\/2004\/12\/14\/284838.html\"> Korean Won sign<\/a>, the <a title=\"And what about the Japanese (Unicode) sort?\" href=\"https:\/\/archives.miloush.net\/michkap\/archive\/2004\/12\/14\/307152.html\"> Japanese Yen sign<\/a>, and <a title=\"I'd rather call it the path separator\" href=\"https:\/\/archives.miloush.net\/michkap\/archive\/2005\/10\/12\/479561.html\"> currency symbols in general<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Kaplan blows the dust off this classic question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-33753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Michael Kaplan blows the dust off this classic question.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}