title: How to show backslash in a japanese locale
body: <p>In my application I have used a backslash as part of a text-based activity indicator (a typical /-\ sequence.. I removed the | because it had a different width). All was well until I saw my application being run on a japanese computer. The backslash was replaced with a japanese character.</p>
  
  <p>How can I avoid this?</p>