Pipe character

[AntoninHL]

Hi,

I'm using WindTerm on my Macbook, but I have some problems with special characters as | "Shift + Option + L" is not working on WindTerm...

Could you help me?

Thanks

A.

[kingToolbox]

Sorry for the late reply, I have some personal matters to take care of recently.

I tested it, and the result of pressing Shift+Option+L is different in different shells, and <0092> is displayed in zsh. What do you expect the result to be, it might be better to have a screenshot due to the special characters. Thank you.

[diogodemarchi]

There is kind of a workaround. You can press option + n which results in a ~ and then type normally characters like @ (option + L), | (option + 7) and \ (shift + option + 7). You would later have to remove the ~, but at least you can type it. Ideally you would not need to type option + n beforehand.

This is using a german layout keyboard.

[ghost]

Hello,

I have indeed the same problem with a French layout mac keyboard. When I try to make a pipe via "Shift + Option + L", nothing happens. I tried with @diogodemarchi's option, (option + 7), but I only have "a weird symbol" that appears. (This term is not very technical, but I attach a capture)

I tried to change Fonts, but no impact

Any help would be appreciated

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[aPollO2k]

Hey Folks,

i have the same issue. I can't use the pipe symbol. Nothing happens. Is this still a thing? Is there no macOS User out there? WindTerm is unusable without the pipe sign.

[diogodemarchi]

I have since stopped using WindTerm, partially because of this as well. But if you really need, could you do it by writing a tilde (~) directly before the pipe? I used to do this as a workaround on german keyboard.

[aPollO2k]

This works for me. However, that is not practical.

Thank you for the quick response.

[dcolley]

Same problem for # key on Mac. It's been a year since this was raised as an issue.

Other tools have "Option as Meta" config: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/156154/use-option-as-meta-key-with-ability-to-type-the-symbol https://osxdaily.com/2013/02/01/use-option-as-meta-key-in-mac-os-x-terminal/

Can we have the same please?

For info You need to enter option+n option+# [3£] key This workaround makes it possible to enter the # character, but is a huge turnoff for anyone working on devops.

[shantur]

+1 I am loving WindTerm but speciall charcters with option key are being a nightmare