How to type āpipeā or vertical bar character ā|āĀ on new Surface Book keyboard with English layout.
TL;DR: Shift + Right-Alt + Backslash
So, I bought a Surface Book in America because theyāre available and cheap. But I live in the UK so I changed the keyboard settings to English-UK.
It means that the keys donāt exactly map to whatās written on them. The most obvious examples are that Shift-2 gives me double quote (ā) rather than the @ symbol thatās written on the key.
Iād managed to get on ok with the various swap-arounds - until I tried to type pipe, aka āvertical barā -> |.
It was written on the keyboard just above the enter key.
But if I hit that key it gives me backslash. Shift + that key gives me squiggly / tildeĀ (~).
Eventually I found it. Itās Shift + Right-Alt + That-key.
Easy when you know how although it still requires a bit of finger gymnastics.