On: Why was '~' chosen to represent the home directory?

[chattoraj]

Speaking of the ¥, notice how it's right under the |?

Early Japanese codepages put ¥ where ASCII has the backslash. Even today, on most (if not all) OSes render the \ as ¥ when using the Japanese locale.

Further reading: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/09/17/469941.as...

[cheapsteak → chattoraj]

Interesting, I think the South Koreans did the same thing.

Installing South Korean games (this was middle school), I've always wondered why the paths were showing up as :

    C:₩Program Files₩GRAVITY₩RO  

And trying to type \ in the installation path input box results in ₩