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Why a backslash displays as "W"+strikethrough in Netbeans?

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I'm facing a strange problem with Netbeans. In the editor, when I type a backslash(), I see a W with a strikethrough (as shown in the attached image). So the is displaying as: But, when I copy and paste that string into notepad, it gets pasted normally (i.e. ). Has anyone faced this problem before?…

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c:\\abc

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Fix for: Why a backslash displays as "W"+strikethrough in Netbeans?

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It's a currency symbol for won. Check your editor's font settings, in particular the "Script" field (if there is one). Michael Kaplan's post When is a backslash not a backslash? says: The character in question is U+005c, the REVERSE SOLIDUS, also kn…

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