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.