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  3. February 2011

Re: ***SUSPECT*** Re: Eval variable = long text

On 2/17/2011 1:38 PM, CRPence wrote:

Different encoding schemes surely, but the apostrophe [SP050000] glyph
is part of the "invariant character set" of all EBCDIC code pages
whereby the code point x'7D' always represents the single-byte
apostrophe character.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/nls/rbagsinvariantcharset.htm



That's true for all EBCDIC code pages, but it won't work if the code is ever used in an ASCII environment. That's already possible if the code is used with the VA RPG compiler.

But aside from that, using x'7D' to define a single quote is just icky.

Here's my latest whine about this, in the RPG Cafe blog:
http://tinyurl.com/too-bad-everyone-knows-x7d

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