Displaying certain characters

[JustCurious]

Hey so, I wanted to display and intro for one of my programs, but it my compiler isn't displaying it how I want it to. I want something like this:

  
 
  _    _      _ _       
 | |  | |    | | |      
 | |__| | ___| | | ___  
 |  __  |/ _ \ | |/ _ \ 
 | |  | |  __/ | | (_) |
 |_|  |_|\___|_|_|\___/ 
                        
                        
                        
                        

But all the "|" are coming out differently, they come out like ":". How do I fix that?

If it helps I have Bloodshed DEV C++ 5.8.3

[helios]

Change your console font. It's possible that none of the available fonts will look quite the way you want. Not much that can be done about that.

[JustCurious]

That's not a font, its a character in the keyboard.

[helios]

Err...
First of all, keyboards have keys on them, not characters. A character is an idea, so that would be absurd.
Second, you're running the program in a terminal emulator. The terminal emulator uses a font to convert the output of your program into a graphical representation that can ultimately be understood by your visual cortex. A font is, basically, a collection of glyphs (i.e. images) assigned to specific character values. This assignment is arbitrary, but it does follow certain conventions. The pipe character ('|') is typically assigned either a glyph that looks like a vertical line, or a glyph that looks like a vertical line with a break in the middle, as you're seeing. Some fonts have the former, while others have the latter. The terminal emulator you happen to be using may support a font that will make pipes look the way you want, or it may not.

[JustCurious]

So what should I do?

[Chriscpp]

Try this

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
    char x=179;
    cout<<x<<endl;
    return 0;
}