New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Wrong Pipe Character?
Ask HN: Wrong Pipe Character?
3 by jbverschoor | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Everybody knows the pipe character |, or at least everybody here should know. It popped my mind that in the past I recall it was rendered as a two small pipes / a stretched colon. When I was young I had an MSX, and my memory was right, ascii character 0x7C / 124 looks different. See https://ift.tt/31rXlq4 Looking further, on https://ift.tt/3hLgCsB ,I can see that 124 / 0x7C is the "vertical bar". And 166 / 0xA6 is "Pipe, Broken vertical bar" It seems we're not using a pipe.. Does anybody happen to know why?
3 by jbverschoor | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Everybody knows the pipe character |, or at least everybody here should know. It popped my mind that in the past I recall it was rendered as a two small pipes / a stretched colon. When I was young I had an MSX, and my memory was right, ascii character 0x7C / 124 looks different. See https://ift.tt/31rXlq4 Looking further, on https://ift.tt/3hLgCsB ,I can see that 124 / 0x7C is the "vertical bar". And 166 / 0xA6 is "Pipe, Broken vertical bar" It seems we're not using a pipe.. Does anybody happen to know why?
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