Sharp's a different thing, ♯ against #, it always amuses me that Microsoft's version of Java should be called C♯ when their OS has such dreadful support for Unicode that it's almost universally written C#, so C-hash (or C-pound for you left-ponders).
Windows handles Unicode just fine. It’s just not UTF-8. The reason they used # is that it’s on the standard keyboard.
But hey, don’t let me get in the way of some ignorant Windows-bashing.