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Hello! I've been searching all over the internet for an answer to this question, but I haven't found anything helpful yet, so I figured the best thing to do is to ask someone - because I really need the character | in programming.
I have a MacBook Air, of the 2010 generation, I believe. I've installed Windows 7 on it, and everything works great, except this: I cannot produce the character | (vertical line) with the use of my keyboard alone. By default, when I use OS X, it's alt + 7 for me.
Windows 7 seems to be using the same layout for its keys as OS X does, but alt + 7 results in a big fat nothing. I've checked, and no other key on my keyboard can produce a |. I don't want to keep copying and pasting the character every time I want to use it!
Is there anything I can do to assign this function to a specific key or key combination on my keyboard? I've tried a program that can reassign functions to other keys, but it didn't seem to recognize the existence of a |-producing key, so that got me nowhere.
Or, as an alternative, is there a way to make Windows use the default keyboard layout for Windows, rather than Mac's?
I hope this makes sense, it's hard to put words to this issue...
I have a MacBook Air, of the 2010 generation, I believe. I've installed Windows 7 on it, and everything works great, except this: I cannot produce the character | (vertical line) with the use of my keyboard alone. By default, when I use OS X, it's alt + 7 for me.
Windows 7 seems to be using the same layout for its keys as OS X does, but alt + 7 results in a big fat nothing. I've checked, and no other key on my keyboard can produce a |. I don't want to keep copying and pasting the character every time I want to use it!
Is there anything I can do to assign this function to a specific key or key combination on my keyboard? I've tried a program that can reassign functions to other keys, but it didn't seem to recognize the existence of a |-producing key, so that got me nowhere.
Or, as an alternative, is there a way to make Windows use the default keyboard layout for Windows, rather than Mac's?
I hope this makes sense, it's hard to put words to this issue...