Re: Free format H, F, D and P specs

Barbara

and if you follow the same support path for brackets you will get "funny"
code in any other CCSID that 37 since you have to substitute brackets
with whatever local character that has the same binary value as CCSID
37 brackets.




On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 10/10/2013 12:27 PM, John Yeung wrote:

...
In other words, of the myriad reasons not to add braces to RPG,
character encoding issues are not anywhere near the top of the list.

That's true.

The RPG compiler is a bit odd (ok, it's very odd) in the way it handles
the variant @ # and $ characters for variable names. Rather than support
those glyphs, it supports characters with specific hex values. So for
some source file CCSIDs it supports variable names with Å, § ...

But that doesn't mean it has to handle all variant characters that way.

The weird handling of @ # and $ started with RPG/400, and a possibly
excessive zeal for compatibility with RPG/400 kept that same behaviour
for ILE RPG too.

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Barbara
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