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An issue could be that some characters "map" differently in other code pages. For example, your "#" must be translated to "Ñ" (a N with a tilde on top) in our CCSID(284) (Spanish) system. Ugh...
... and @ must be replaced with the paragraph § sign using the German Code Page (273)

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Von: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Luis Rodriguez
Gesendet: Tuesday, 21.4 2015 17:14
An: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Betreff: Re: Interactive logic-style question

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Bob Cagle <bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

(p.s. It's a whole other discussion, but I don't understand why some
people are so opposed to using special characters (@, #, $) in
variable
names?)



Bob,

An issue could be that some characters "map" differently in other code pages. For example, your "#" must be translated to "Ñ" (a N with a tilde on
top) in our CCSID(284) (Spanish) system. Ugh...

Regards,


Luis Rodriguez

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