# If the Yen sign appears as a backslash in CotEditor on Mac

With one of the text encodings listed below, a halfwidth Yen character (¥) is appeared as-is when you type, but if you change the encoding, or, if you save and reopen the file, the characters appear as a backslash (\).

- Japanese (Windows, DOS)
- Japanese (EUC)
- Traditional Chinese (EUC)
- Simplified Chinese (GB 2312)
- Korean (EUC)
- Korean (Windows, DOS)
- Thai (Windows, DOS)
- Thai (ISO 8859-11)
- Arabic (Mac OS)
- Arabic (ISO 8859-6)
- Hebrew (Mac OS)
- Greek (ISO 8859-7)
- Cyrillic (Mac OS)
- Cyrillic (ISO 8859-5)
- Cyrillic (Windows)
- Central European (ISO Latin 2)
- Central European (ISO Latin 4)
- Central European (Windows Latin 2)
- Central European (Mac OS)
- Nordic (ISO Latin 6)
- Baltic (ISO Latin 7)
- Celtic (ISO Latin 8)
- Romanian (ISO Latin 10)
- Russian (DOS)
- Latin-US (DOS)
- Western (ISO Latin 3)
- Western (ASCII)

## See also

- Use four kinds of Shift JIS properly