# The Yen sign appears as a backslash

With one of the character encodings listed below, a halfwidth Yen character (¥) is displayed as is when you type, but if you change the encoding, or, if you save and reopen the file, it will be displayed as a backslash (\).

Japanese (Windows, DOS) | Arabic (Mac OS) | Central European (ISO Latin 2)
Japanese (EUC) | Hebrew (Mac OS) | Western (ISO Latin 3)
Traditional Chinese (EUC) | Greek (ISO 8859-7) | Central European (ISO Latin 4)
Simplified Chinese (EUC) | Cyrillic (Mac OS) | Latin-US (DOS)
Korean (EUC) | Cyrillic (ISO 8859-5) | Central European (Windows Latin 2)
Korean (Windows, DOS) | Central European (Mac OS) |