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I've worked in many shops that have standards to not use
special characters for any clp/rpg coding or field values in
any file.
jim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Rowe" <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:41 PM
Subject: RE: Suggested CL enhancement - <>


> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 17:08, Dan Bale wrote:
> > I forget the details, but I've been burned using those  symbols, I
think
> > when sharing code with someone in another country.  This was over 15
years
> > ago.
>
> Yes, I've had similar problems with  (on my UK keyboard it's left of
> the 1 key, just above the tab key) with Scandinavian users not able to
> compile my utilities. Characters like #, $ & Â caused problems too, as
> did ||, |< etc.
>
> Regards, Martin
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