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character The character "|",
ASCII code 124.
Common names: bar; or; or-bar; v-bar; pipe; vertical bar.
Rare:
ITU-T: vertical line; gozinta; thru; pipesinta;
"Pipe", "gozinta", "thru" and "pipesinta" refer to the use of
Some keyboards show both a solid vertical bar (code 124) and a
broken vertical bar (code 166).
[Does anyone call either kind of vertical bar "
pling"?
Other codes?]
(1998-09-20)