On: Known anomalies in Unicode character names (2017)

[jws]

In over 40 years of computing I've never heard the backslash called anything else… until today when you made me look into it.

Apparently Unicode has renamed it be "REVERSE SOLIDUS" while still tolerating "BACKSLASH" as a name for it.

I don't expect anyone to ever use the words "REVERSE SOLIDUS" in my presence.

Interesting, it entered computer use in the era of Algol so they could write their /\ and \/ operators.