EUC-JP and the Yen sign

[Ulrich Drepper]

Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr> writes:

> Note also that the XFree86 "ja" and "ja.JIS" locales have as their
> primary font choice for the 0x00..0x7F range the ISO8859-1:GL (= US-ASCII)
> fonts. Therefore 0x5C in Japanese XFree86 environments will look like a
> backslash, not like a Yen sign.

XFree is certainly no convincing argument for this.  Again, what I got
told other systems are doing is using the Yen sign.

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