OT What is this symbol?

Styma, Robert E (Robert) stymar at lucent.com
Tue Sep 26 15:01:02 UTC 2006


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> 
> This is a pipe | but what is this ¦ and how do you create 
> it?
> 
In ASCII, the pipe symbol may appear as a broken vertical line
or a solid one depending upon the font used it is x'7C'.  In EBCDIC (used
on IBM Mainframes) they are separate (x'6A' and x'4F' respectively)..

Bob Styma




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