You  can visit the page as Boyko reported, as try different codepage
setting for your browser, until you can see the broken bar. copy and
paste to a J session to see the recoded.  Save the page source
of the same webpage and dump its content to confirm the original byte
is A6 (if I remember correctly).

Пнд, 10 Сен 2012, Raul Miller писал(а):
> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:51 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I can confirm this problem. The vertical bar of box drawing
> > characters is not | but ¦ (codepoint above 127). I think it is a
> > latin-1 character but my browser is default to use utf-8 therefore
> > cannot display those characters.
> 
> I received this as the utf-8 sequence 194 166.
> 
>    require 'convert'
>    hfd 194 166
> C2
> A6
> 
> According to http://www.utf8-chartable.de/ this corresponds to the
> unicode character with the name "broken bar".  So either:
> 
> (a) the character sequence you sent does not match what I received, or
> (b) your browser is not displaying utf-8 properly.
> 
> Looking at my result from 9!:6'' I am imagining that (a) is the case.
> The vertical bar character I am seeing there is represented by the
> character literal 25, which is a unicode control character.
> 
> That said, unicode documentation does not label this as a latin-1 character.
> 
> -- 
> Raul
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