Sunday, May 18, 2008

SOLUTION: when the back-slash sign appears as a Japanese yen sign


This happened after installing the Japanese Language Pack. In a system with English as the default language (the one you selected when you installed Vista) the yen sign (¥) sometimes shows instead of the back-slash (\) even after uninstalling this language pack. Solution: Go to Control Panel / Regional and Language Options / Select Administrative tab (as shown). Make sure the current language for non-Unicode programs is English. I had Japanese selected instead of English.

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