Re: Special characters

I have a macro that lets me enter any value from x40 - xFE (64 - 254) and it will put that character where the cursor is. I purposely limited the range - did it with the VBA way of writing a macro, as I recall.

Another way to get a macro to do any byte is to use the APL macro statement - there's also an ANSI macro for, you guessed it, ASCII - I use it to enter display control bytes.

I just made a modification of my "hex" macro using the apl macro - it seemed to render normal EBCDIC. Now I did see that there's an APL keyboard mode.

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Which special character(s)? I just tried it in my session -- I assigned the "copyright" symbol to Alt-P, and it worked like a charm. You can also do it with macros -- I've done that with the "degrees" symbol.


"RPG programming on the IBM i \(AS/400 and iSeries\)" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

If I look at an EBCDIC Character Set chart I see non-keyboard
characters. Is there a way to display those characters on a 5250 green
screen? I opened the 5250 Edit --> Preferences --> keyboard item and
it shows some of the characters, and allows them to be assigned to a key
stroke, but , at least for me, it does not appear on the screen when
typed. However something does happen because when I close the member,
it warns me that there is an invalid character.


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