I'd start with trying another keyboard (I hope it isn't a laptop).
In the mean time, see that Numlock is on and press Alt-032 to get a space (if it's a laptop, I hope it has a numeric keypad).
Kees
Tried googling and couldn't find any insight. Everytime i press the shift key on my keyboard i get the following character (without quotation marks): "|"
Suffice it to say, it's getting pretty annoying when typing an email/letter etc. It didn't always do this.

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