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2 unusual facts about Won sign


Backslash

In the Japanese encodings ISO 646 (a 7-bit code based on ASCII), JIS X 0201 (an 8-bit code), and Shift JIS (a multi-byte encoding which is 8-bit for ASCII), the code point 0x5C that would be used for backslash in ASCII is instead rendered as a yen mark (¥), while in Korean encoding, it is drawn as a won currency symbol (₩).

KS X 1001

Not all of them encode the standard the same way, like replacing the typical backslash at byte 0x5C with the won currency sign ().



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