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Subject:    Re: [NTLK] =?utf-8?q?Typing_the_=E2=80=98pipe=E2=80=99_character_on_a?=
From:       Grant Hutchinson <grant () splorp ! com>
Date:       2020-05-23 20:09:53
Message-ID: 22E4775F-45F3-4619-8AE6-6841E6D9C501 () splorp ! com
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> > > On May 22, 2020, at 4:18 PM, Nic Malone via NewtonTalk \
> > > <newtontalk@newtontalk.net> wrote: 
> > > Does anyone know how to type a ‘pipe' character, the tall thin character \
> > > shaped like a overly long ‘l'? I need it for a WEP WiFi network password. I \
> > > know I could change the WiFi pass phrase but then I'd have to edit the set up \
> > > on all the other old devices using this network. I have a physical Newton \
> > > keyboard if that helps.
> > 
> > On the software keyboard, tap shift-\ ... I know it looks like a broken bar, not \
> > a solid bar or pipe, but that's the character I've always used. Shift-\ on the \
> > physical Newton keyboard should work as well.
> 
> Can confirm. When I got my first programming job, on a Unix system in 1985, the \
> pipe symbol was rendered as two stacked vertical lines, rather than one unbroken \
> one. Vintage hardware might do the same.

The pipe (or "vertical line") glyph is part of the standard printable ASCII character \
set. I'm pretty sure that regardless of how it's visually depicted in the font \
itself, it's still getting sent as ASCII 124.

All three of the standard Newton fonts (Casual, Fancy, Simple), as well as Monaco, \
display the vertical bar as broken.

Oddly enough, there *is* a "broken bar" glyph in ASCII as well:  ¦

It's not directly keyboard accessible on the Newton or the Mac (you'd have to go \
through the Character Viewer utility under macOS), but on Windows you can type \
Alt-221.

g.


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