Won sign
The won sign, is a currency symbol. It represents the South [Korean won], the North Korean won and, unofficially, the old Korean won.
Appearance
Its appearance is "W" with a horizontal strike going through the center. Some fonts display the won sign with two horizontal lines, and others with only one horizontal line. Both forms are used when handwritten.Encoding
The Unicode code point is : this is valid for either appearance. Additionally, there is a fullwidth character at.Microsoft Windows
In Microsoft Windows code page 949, the position is used for the won sign.In Korean versions of Windows, many fonts display the backslash character as the won sign. This also applies to the directory separator character and the escape character.
The same issue is seen with the yen sign in Japanese versions of Windows.