In my recent batch post I had to use the pipe symbol (|) in some example listings. It turned out that the blogger.com editor removes the pipe symbols when switching from HTML to wysiwyg editing.
Worse is that if you are in Wysiwyg mode and looking at the pipe symbol in your text, it will disapear from your post if you publish from there!!
I tried to escape the pipe symbol with \ and other ways, but it simply disappeared!
I looked at wikipedia "vertical bar article" and found the ASCII value for the pipe symbol:
Then i looked for HTML article on how to escape symbols, similar to the &. It was an XML guide that really putted it simple:
XML has the same syntax as HTML for escape symbols like "&"="&", "<"="<", ">"=">", ascii(nnn)=&#nnn;", etc.
The solution was write all pipe symbols (|) as "|" from the HTML view of the editor, then not switching back to GUI, simply publising from HTML view at once:
Worse is that if you are in Wysiwyg mode and looking at the pipe symbol in your text, it will disapear from your post if you publish from there!!
I tried to escape the pipe symbol with \ and other ways, but it simply disappeared!
I looked at wikipedia "vertical bar article" and found the ASCII value for the pipe symbol:
ASCII
decimal (base-10): 124, or hexadecimal (base-16): 7C
Then i looked for HTML article on how to escape symbols, similar to the &. It was an XML guide that really putted it simple:
XML has the same syntax as HTML for escape symbols like "&"="&", "<"="<", ">"=">", ascii(nnn)=&#nnn;", etc.
The solution was write all pipe symbols (|) as "|" from the HTML view of the editor, then not switching back to GUI, simply publising from HTML view at once:
For this article it looked like this when I pushed publish: (notice how the text for < is written):
And the result on blogspot.com was as i wanted:
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