.@mwichary do you know where the broken pipe char comes from as an alternative to vertical bar?
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It was a ridiculous political compromise so that ! could be mapped to the EBCDIC | in translation tables
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Because ASCII | is in the ISO 646 international use area and is a letter in some other countries' 646 codes
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