Question on Code Page differences (Phil Hall)

A while ago I posted a problem where some software we wrote would mess up
characters.  Phil Hall was a big help (and I'm looking for input from him as
well) and I would like to run something by him.

The character in question was the bracket.  "[".  It was converted wrong,
making the data wrong.

Would this work?

In my data, instead of a bracket, I use something that doesn't change hex
codes between CCSIDs, like //BRACKET//.

Then, in a file, I have the user on the machine enter in the literal value
for the bracket and store it in a file.

When I write data to a file, I scan for //BRACKET// and replace it with what
they typed in.  So "//BRACKET// value" would be replaced with "[ value" when
written.

Will this work?  Other solutions are simply too involved for this
application it seems.  My concern is if the file is external and I ship it
to them the CCSID wil be 37 and may mess things up.

Thanks!

Brad
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