>If we tell CP932 users, "your 0x5C is a yen symbol, so translate it to a
>Unicode yen symbol", what will they do?  Probably say "no, that'll break
>almost all applications", just like our applications would break if we
>changed ISO-8859-1 backslashes to Unicode yen symbols.

You tell them that the Unicode backslash is a backslash, and the Unicode
Yen is a Yen. Let CP932 users make whatever arrangements they want - just
please not export the problems to general Unicode users.

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