14Oct Fri2005 | Path Separators
I have just discovered that the windows path separators in Korea
and Japan are
their local currency symbols.
The apparent cause is that both these sumbols map to 0x5c in
their local DOS code page, which is '\' in ASCII-land.
This is one of those
dumb-accidents-kept-for-backwards-compatibility things, which will
help me read japanese & korean directory trees more easily. I
wonder what it means for Ant? I know in our book, even the Korean
translation, we use / pretty much everywhere a the path separator,
but quite often the windows appears in output examples.
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