OT What is this symbol?

[Mike McCarty]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> 
> Saying the value of a character doesn't have much meaning without defining
> its encoding.  The │ character is actually 0xE29482 in UTF8 while | is 0x7c.

Ou contraire. In this particular case, the *only* thing one has is
it's code. The OP doesn't know what character set it is from.

> FWIW, it is also 0xA278 in big5.  :-)

You are confusing graphic representations with codes.

Mike
-- 
p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}
This message made from 100% recycled bits.
You have found the bank of Larn.
I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you.
I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that!