Re: Printing the Trademark Symbol

On 13-Aug-2015 08:04 -0600, Jeff Young wrote:

I have been asked by a friend if there is a way the Trademark
Symbol can be stored in a database file and then printed on a
document.

The code point 0xAF in CCSID 37 is the character identifier SM530000 described as the "Registered Trademark Symbol" with the [apostrophe-delimited] glyph '®' rather than the [apostrophe-delimited] glyph '™' [which unlike the earlier RTS, that TM symbol does not appear for me properly as the expected glyph after pasting the 0xC299 character into this UTF8 message]

From what little I know, I believe that if he wants it in a database
file, he can create the table with SQL and add a BLOB field.

Per above, a properly CCSID-tagged column can have the EBCDIC Registered Trademark Symbol *character* entered just as any other visible glyph. Of course the chosen font must properly represent that character\code-point as well.

How would that be loaded / retrieved and sent to a printer via an
RPGLE program?
I thought about creating a PF, but that would first require getting
the symbol in the spool file first.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Perhaps instead the stated intent, is to print their particular trademarked _logo_ for which they have an image file such as a GIF, TIF, PNG, or JPG binary?

As an image, presumably the typical method used is to print that as an Overlay resource object (*OVL). The binary image data can be created\retrieved elsewhere and /imported/ to the member of a Physical File (PF) or Stream File (STMF) [the latter, at least indirectly] from which the overlay is created\compiled using the Create Overlay (CRTOVL) command.