I am using Emacs 24, console. I am looking for a way to replace the character of the vertical border with another, \u2502 . Since I didn't find much, I believe it is hardcoded in the source.

Is there any better way to do this, other than recompiling Emacs ? I use many different machines, and thus having this customization inside my ./emacs.d/ would be quite awesome as a matter of fact ;].