vertical dotted line ascii or unicode character

Question

I'm trying to find a vertical dotted line ascii character. Currently I'm using ¦ but am hoping to find something more along the lines of the indent guide character that sublime text has:

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Definitely doesn't have to be exact, but I'd like it to be more of a dotted line than a dashed line.

Such lines are typically made by drawings on the window's background, not using character strings at all. — Remy Lebeau, Dec 03 '13 at 02:15
@RemyLebeau yea, I know, but that wasn't an option for my application and I wanted to achieve a similar effect. — pizza247, Dec 03 '13 at 14:38

score 15 · Answer 1 · answered May 02 '17 at 08:51

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There are a lot symbols like this at http://unicode-search.net/unicode-namesearch.pl?term=VERTICAL

such as: ⁞, ⋮, ┆, ┊, ┋, ┇, ︙,

I was looking for symbol like ⁞ but 6 dots whose name is "vertical six dots" and code point is U+2E3D, unfortunately, I was not able to copy/paste it here like others, since I couldn't get it displayed in my browser. If you know, please paste it in the comment section.

answered May 02 '17 at 08:51

CodyChan

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@rld. Are your browsers able to display that symbol? My browsers are not. – CodyChan Jul 30 '18 at 05:29
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This is U+2E3D: ⸽ – CodyChan Oct 15 '19 at 09:55

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 02 '13 at 15:16

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As Funkotron_King said, there is nothing better in ASCII, if Unicode is an option you could use U+250B - ┋

answered Dec 02 '13 at 15:16

mechanicalfish

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it turns out I can use Unicode for this. I edited the question. – pizza247 Dec 02 '13 at 17:22
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It won’t probably create a regular line though: there will usually be gaps between the strings of four dots. You would need to experiment with different fonts. – Jukka K. Korpela Dec 02 '13 at 17:33

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 03 '13 at 02:14

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Unfortunately the only dotted vertical line in ASCII is the colon (:) Html code &#58 hex code 3A.

For a list of all the ASCII chars follow this link.

http://www.asciitable.com/

Hope that helps

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Remy Lebeau

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answered Dec 02 '13 at 15:13

Melbz

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vertical dotted line ascii or unicode character

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