OT What is this symbol?

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 27 03:29:20 UTC 2006


From: "jdow" <jdow at earthlink.net>
> From: "Ed Greshko" <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>
>
>> linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
>>> This is a pipe | but what is this │ and how do you create
>>> it?
>>>
>>
>> It is meant to be a pipe as well.  The man pages are in troff format and for
>> some reason they used the │ to represent |.
>>
>> You can prove that to yourself by going to the man page and try using │ with
>> the definitions given.  You'll find it won't work....but | will.
>
> As to what it is you'll find it is a character with value 0xE2 in hex.
> There are various ways of entering such characters in various OSs.

Oops - James Wilkerson got all three bytes of the character.

{^_^} 




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