Well, maybe we should use yen (¥) instead. It even looks like a zipper.
(Of course, we'll leave out the little problem that half the people
in Japan would read it as a backslash wannabe...that's not really
a problem since a zipper would only be used where an operator is
expected, and backslash is
Dear All,
I think that the broken bar is dangerous. Why:
It can be mixed up with the normal bar |. In some fonts it looks the same.
And to many people it is not 100% clear, which of the two bars is the broken
one and which not.
Off course it is possible to avoid this, but that is not solving the
