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JDW1023
on June 29, 2020
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Ask HN: Wrong Pipe Character?
I remembered watching a youtube video[0] about it. The "vertical bar" 124 / 0x7C is in the original 7-bit ASCII standard. But the 166 / 0xA6 "Pipe, Broken vertical bar" is in the not so standard high ASCII/ Extended ASCII [1].
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BktIY7VbrUs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII
Jaruzel
on June 29, 2020
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Seconded, Nostalgia Nerds video on it (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BktIY7VbrUs
) is an excellent breakdown of why we have two pipe chars: | and ¦
jbverschoor
on June 29, 2020
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Ah cool video Can't believe I forgot that dos also had the broken bar, as well as the older keyboards :-)
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[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BktIY7VbrUs [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII