Re: [Phys-L] Missing symbol

[John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>]

On 08/10/2014 11:15 AM, Bill Norwood wrote:
> Do you guys agree that the shift-backslash, colon with elongated points, is
> not available  on Droid etc?

Possibly you are talking about the following character:
  "¦"
  Unicode Character 'BROKEN BAR' (U+00A6)
  HTML entity ¦
  http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/a6/index.htm

There is potential for confusion because many keyboard mappings
arrange for shift-backslash to produce the following:
  "|"
  Unicode Character 'VERTICAL LINE' (U+007C)
  HTML entity "|"  (no other name)
  http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/7c/index.htm

Motorola "Droid" phones use the Android operating system.

You can get (for free) Android apps that allow you to compose
arbitrary unicode characters.  However, most of the time the
easiest procedure is to find a web page that already has the 
symbol you want, then cut-and-paste.

My collection of peculiar symbols and hard-to-spell words can
be found at
  http://www.av8n.com/jsd/play.html