RE: Vertical bar translation

So how do I resolve this?


Rob Berendt
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




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From: Tom Liotta

>And right here is where Rob's issue probably would become first visible.
What he will see will be the >characters according to the character set
defined for him in that session on that device. This has no necessary
>relationship to a character set defined for a remote customer or partner
at a different location on a different >system. Without transmitting
appropriate CCSID or code page/character set, he has no way to influence
what >someone else sees.

Sorry for jumping into this a bit late, but the above is (no surprise)
absolutely right.  The broken bar (x'6A' in CCSID 37) is not in the base
7-bit ASCII character set, and so moves around based on what ASCII code
page the viewer is using.  If the target is 1252 (Windows Latin 1) or 819
(ISO 8859 Latin 1) a x'A6' is needed to display the broken bar; but if
you're in 437 (PC USA) or 850 (PC Multilingual) that same x'A6' would give
you a feminine ordinal indicator (what looks like a superscripted 
lowercase
underlined a).  And other country specific code pages would give still
other characters for x'A6'.



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