Re: Suggested CL enhancement - <> -- MIDRANGE-L

The main reason not to use these is that these code points are not guaranteed to be the same for different code pages (CCSIDs). There is a thing called the invariant character set, which comprises a-zA-Z0-9 and the characters + < = > % & * " ' ( ) , _ - . / : ; ?

Note that the exclamation point is also variant. Logical OR (|) and logical NOT (¬) are not in the invariant character set.

This is what makes stuff not work in other locales.

Look up "invariant character set" in InfoCenter for more info.

Vern

At 02:22 PM 9/23/2004, you wrote:

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
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From: "Martin Rowe" <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 17:08, Dan Bale wrote:
> > I forget the details, but I've been burned using those Â¬ symbols, I
think
> > when sharing code with someone in another country.  This was over 15
years
> > ago.
>
> Yes, I've had similar problems with Â¬ (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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