RE: Print Char w/ No EBCDIC Hex Code

["Haas, Matt" <Matt.Haas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,

I don't even want to venture into the 'can' question but shouldn't data 
formatting be handled by what ever is displaying/printing the data? If you use 
a character that can be entered on the keyboard, you know that eventually 
someone is going to use it and not intend to have this formatting applied. If 
you use something that isn't enterable on the keyboard, someone is going to 
want to run a query or SQL over it and not be able to select the data.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Naughton [mailto:mnaughton@juddwire.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 4:43 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Print Char w/ No EBCDIC Hex Code


One of my users has asked me if there is a way to embed a special symbol
in a text string -- in other words, he wants to have a text string (in a
normal AS/400 PF record) that contains something like "#  25 x 45 #", only
each "#" would show up as a solid bar or some other image that doesn't
have an EBCDIC hex code. Of course, he'd also like it show on the screen
that way :-), but that is not so important. Most likely, we'd be printing
on some sort of laser printer connected to the AS/400 over our network.
Also, I think we'd always be able to scan the string for substitution
characters (if that were the way to make this work) and replace them with
the graphic when we were printing.

I suspect the short answer is, "no", but before closing the book on this I
thought I'd ask around and see if anyone has any ideas. . . .