Why are pipe characters horizontal when using bxcjkjatype?

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I have written a paper in English that includes Japanese text. I originally wrote it using xecjk but am converting it to use PDFLatex and bxcjkjatype for Arxiv. Following the instructions here mostly worked, but for some reason pipe characters in a table have turned into horizontal lines. The first line, second column here should be 見|た, but the pipe is rotated and at an odd height.

I could understand the character being rotated if I was using vertical typesetting, but I’m not doing that at any point in the document.

Is there a way I can make the pipes vertical again?

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I could understand the character being rotated if I was using vertical typesetting, but I'm not doing that at any point in the document.
Is there a way I can make the pipes vertical again?

David Carlisle · Answer

You have not shown any code but I assume you have the equivalent of
documentclass{article}

begin{document}

a | b

end{document}

The original 7-bit (OT1) encoding used for TeX fonts does not have a | character except in  math mode and tt for verbatim.
Use the 8bit T1 encoding for latin script sections:

documentclass{article}
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
begin{document}

a | b

end{document}

Why are pipe characters horizontal when using bxcjkjatype?

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