Are the two kanjis 箇所 and 個所 interchangeable?

Question

Our customer uses 箇所 but my manager uses 個所 when emailing project status. Are both kanji interchangeable?

The context of usage in a sentence is:

一箇所変更しました。

A portion (of the code/software) was changed.

possible duplicate of [What are the origins of ヶ?](http://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/347/what-are-the-origins-of-%e3%83%b6) — istrasci, Mar 25 '12 at 19:17

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 25 '12 at 07:57

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Yes they are interchangeable. They exist in these forms:

answered Mar 25 '12 at 07:57

Flaw

is there a preference when to use which character? – Nap Mar 25 '12 at 10:09
@Nap. I do not know if there is a preference. – Flaw Mar 25 '12 at 10:39
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个 is not usual in Japanese. In some cases it also shows up as ケ or カ or ヵ. They are not always interchangeable: see [Wikipedia](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B5). – Zhen Lin Mar 25 '12 at 12:22
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They are interchangeable when counting, but for example 危険箇所 is okay but 危険個所 is not, so they are not 100 percent interchangeable. – Jesse Good Mar 26 '12 at 01:21

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