>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. -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/