The backslash character is viewed as a weird character ( as : Y ) Follow
When I type a backslash in the IDE, it shows such a character that I'm denoting the red circle.
Why is this happening?
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Is PhpStorm the only place you see the character in?
In general, it's the Japanese directory separator, so you probably have the locale set to Japanese somewhere in your system.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/7314690/8018879
Since I updated my JetBrains apps to the latest version, I've seen the Japanese directory separator in PhpStorm, DataGrip, and CLion. Thanks for your help, I will try to find the problem in the system locale.
You can check the system directory separator by running
[IO.Path]::DirectorySeparatorCharin PowerShell.I had encountered the same issue. For me, this issue is appeared because of the custom font used like Frabklin Gothic Medium. That caused a yen (Ұ) symbol in directory path. When I chose the font like Jetbrains Mono, it changed to backward slash