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Kernigh: How many more one-character articles can there be? I add one more, the ¥ from Dudley's dungeon.

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How many more one-character articles can there be? I add one more, the ¥ from Dudley's dungeon.

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{{ASCII}} <div class="floatright" style="font-size: smaller;">There is no ¥ in ASCII!</div>

'''¥''' does not exist. There is not any [[monster]] in NetHack that appears onscreen as a {{lightgray|¥}}. The character ¥ is not part of [[ASCII]], but requires Unicode or some other character set that supports it, so it cannot even appear in most [[curses library]] software, such as the typical [[tty]]-[[Unix]] game.

Now since ¥ is the symbol for Japanese yen, analogous to how [[$]] is the symbol for the dollar, one might guess that ¥, if it existed in the game, would be a currency, as $ is the [[zorkmid]]; but twice now in [[Dudley's dungeon]] has ¥ appeared as a nonexistant monster.

* [http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20060627 27 June 2006]: The ¥ is one of the failed candidates to be [[Dudley]]'s sidekick.
* [http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20061130 30 November 2006]: The ¥ is "Vlad the impossible", a rejected attempt at improving [[Vlad the Impaler]].

Even earlier, one strip had ¥ being in the name of an object:
* [http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20050922 22 September 2005]: A dead [[marilith]] drops a ¥-shirt, not a [[T-shirt]].

At [http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20040510 10 May 2004], Dudley mulled using Chinese characters to open more inventory slots. No Chinese characters ever appeared in the strip; by [http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20040518 18 May 2004] that idea became out. This makes ¥ a very rare instance of non-ASCII in Dudley's dungeon.

[[Category:Dudley's dungeon]]

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−	{{ASCII}} <div class="floatright" style="font-size: smaller;">There is no ¥ in ASCII!</div>	+	{{ASCII}}<div class="floatright" style="font-size: smaller;">There is no ¥ in ASCII!</div>

	'''¥''' is the symbol for Japanese yen, analogous to [[$]] for the dollar or the [[zorkmid]] of ''[[NetHack]]''. The character is not part of [[ASCII]], and requires Unicode or another character set that supports it to be displayed; it does not appear in most [[curses interface]] library software, such as the typical [[tty]]-[[Unix]] game).		'''¥''' is the symbol for Japanese yen, analogous to [[$]] for the dollar or the [[zorkmid]] of ''[[NetHack]]''. The character is not part of [[ASCII]], and requires Unicode or another character set that supports it to be displayed; it does not appear in most [[curses interface]] library software, such as the typical [[tty]]-[[Unix]] game).

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 ==Dudley's dungeon==
-While no [[monster]] in ''[[NetHack]]'' appears onscreen as a {{lightgray|¥}}, [[Dudley's dungeon]] has put the symbol to some use:
+While no [[monster]], [[item]] or other [[square]] in ''[[NetHack]]'' appears onscreen as a {{lightgray|¥}}, [[Dudley's dungeon]] has put the symbol to some use:
-* [http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20050922 22 September 2005]: A dead [[marilith]] drops a ¥-shirt, rather than a [[T-shirt]] (which would not fit a marilith's six arms).
+* [http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20050922 22 September 2005]: A [[marilith]] that is killed drops a ¥-shirt, rather than a [[T-shirt]] (which would not fit a marilith's six arms).
 * [http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20060627 27 June 2006]: The ¥ represents a "nonexistent" monster that is among the failed candidates for [[Dudley]]'s sidekick.
 * [http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20061130 30 November 2006]: Dudley has an 'imagine spot' involving methods to improve [[Vlad the Impaler]]; one such idea is "Vlad the impossible", represented by a {{white|¥}}.

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 {{ASCII}} <div class="floatright" style="font-size: smaller;">There is no ¥ in ASCII!</div>
-'''¥''' is the symbol for Japanese yen, analogous to [[$]] for the dollar or the [[zorkmid]] of ''[[NetHack]]''. The character is not part of [[ASCII]], and requires Unicode or another character set that supports it to be displayed - as such, it does not appear in most [[curses interface]] library software, such as the typical [[tty]]-[[Unix]] game).
+'''¥''' is the symbol for Japanese yen, analogous to [[$]] for the dollar or the [[zorkmid]] of ''[[NetHack]]''. The character is not part of [[ASCII]], and requires Unicode or another character set that supports it to be displayed; it does not appear in most [[curses interface]] library software, such as the typical [[tty]]-[[Unix]] game).
 ==Dudley's dungeon==

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 * [http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20060627 27 June 2006]: The ¥ represents a "nonexistent" monster that is among the failed candidates for [[Dudley]]'s sidekick.
 * [http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20061130 30 November 2006]: Dudley has an 'imagine spot' involving methods to improve [[Vlad the Impaler]]; one such idea is "Vlad the impossible", represented by a {{white|¥}}.
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 ==Dudley's dungeon==
-While no [[monster]] in ''[[NetHack]]'' appears onscreen as a {{lightgray|¥}}, [[Dudley's Dungeon]] has put the symbol to some use:
+While no [[monster]] in ''[[NetHack]]'' appears onscreen as a {{lightgray|¥}}, [[Dudley's dungeon]] has put the symbol to some use:
 * [http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20050922 22 September 2005]: A dead [[marilith]] drops a ¥-shirt, rather than a [[T-shirt]] (which would not fit a marilith's six arms).