This is definately a font problem.
It's possible that the installation of East Asian alnguages support
caused one of the commonly used fonts to be sustituted for a different
version of that font. This font is likely Tahoma.
Check your Fonts folder from the Control Panel.
You may also use the Character Map. Find the location of the
backslash character in the "Times New Roman" or "Courier" font, then
change the selection to Tahoma. If the "W" appears in that position,
this will confirm that.
To replace the font with the correct one:
Insert the Windows disc. Now, Start > Run > "cmd" > {OK}
>From the command prompt type:
d: [ENTER] (where D: is the CD-ROM drive)
cd i386 [ENTER]
expand tahoma.tt_ %SYSTEMROOT%\fonts\tahoma.ttf [ENTER]
expand tahomabd.tt_ %SYSTEMROOT%\fonts\tahomabd.ttf [ENTER]
exit [ENTER]
If you get an access denied error, expand them to a different
locations such as C:\, then install them manually from the Control
Panel > Fonts. Click File > Install New Font > Choose the two font
files from C:\ and click {OK}.
If you then get an error indicating that the font is already
installed. You will have to delete the TAHOMA.TTF and TAHOMABD.TTF
files from C:\WINDOWS\Fonts, first.
You will need to reboot after changing this font.
--- In [email protected], "Roy Waggoner"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have this weird problem in that a lot of times when I try to type a
> backslash, it looks like a W with a horizontal line through it.
>
> Now, here is the weird thing. It does not do it when I type online in
> a form like here. Here the \ works fine. But, in some other programs,
> it does not work correctly when I type it. And, when I try to type a \
> in the URL address box of both IE and Firefox, it looks like the W
> with the horizontal slash in the middle of the letter.
>
> It works fine in Microsoft Word, but the most obvious problem is when
> I try to install a new program or I see the backslashes in the address
> of a file on the computer (such as when I look to see the path of a
> program in the Start Menu).
>
> In these cases, I do see the W with the horizontal line, not the
> backslash.
>
> It doesn't appear the keyboard is defective, but something is not
> being interpreted correctly by the computer in SOME programs.
>
> Any idea what this may be? It is not a problem causing major
> problems....it isn't like my files are becoming screwed up and the
> locations are fine, but is a bit grating to see the backslash being
> misinterpreted by the computer in a really weird way.
>
> One of my college roomates was from S. Korea and he installed Korean
> language support so he could use my Word, but I uninstalled that and
> still have a problem. The default language in the Windows XP
> region/language settings is English US.
>
> I had some problems in IE (not Mozilla though) in which the language
> looked Korean or oriental of some sort on some pages....it would screw
> up and look weird on some sites like Launchcast in a couple spots (not
> the entire website), but since I don't use IE anymore, I ignored the
> issue. Should I try uninstalling IE? These may be connected possibly.
>
> Yesterday, I had some weird thing happen to me when I tried to update
> my NVidia drivers. I downloaded the English version supposedly, but
> the install program had Chinese or Korean or something written
> instead. I don't know how that happened....every other install I have
> tried has worked just fine. The only issue is the install address will
> have the W w/a horizontal line instead of the backslash, but the
> install instructions were in English. Perhaps NVidia screwed up their
> installs, I don't know.
>
> I think this problem with the backslash has been going on for a couple
> months, and I just don't know what may have precipitated it. If
> anybody has any ideas on a fix, let me know.
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