I have looked a little harder at this because I have discovered a problem. If your source code has hex code 25 (from code page 285, or u+000A) somewhere on a line, the rest of the line displays in SEU as green, inversed and underlined. But in RDP the line feed character is displayed, some of the following characters are *deleted* (possibly mistakenly being put into the line#/date fields?) and the source will obviously not compile without some editing to correct the linefeed and missing characters.
I would've liked to comment on the closed APAR but I can't see how, so I'll just warn everyone here instead.
To make things slightly easier to get rid of some of the colour hex codes, if you enter this: " [\x80\x81\x82\x83\x84\x88\x89\x8a\x8b\x8c\x90\x91\x93\x94\x95\x96\x98\x99\x9a\x9b\x9e] " (without quotes) into the find dialog, click the regular expression box, type a space into the replace box and press "Replace All", you will be able to remove all the colour codes I could find that could not be displayed in Windows Vista/Windows 7.
Paul.
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From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thierry Bernard
Sent: 07 September 2011 00:45
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Colour hex codes
I looked at the APAR and it has been closed recently with the mention that "As long as the underlying operating system does not support rendering of these characters, RDP will no longer support them".
So it looks that we don't have a choice we have to remove these characters.
Thinking a little bit more about it, the color characters are a problem only when they are in positions 1 to 5. When they are after the comment marker, I don't feel they are a problem. For instance if I have something like the following ( _ represents the color character )
*_A comment
In SEU, I would have everything up and including the * in green and the rest of the comment in color. In RD Power I would get
*A comment
At work, I will propose that we move the color codes to the right of the comment marker. If a non comment line is colored (rare in our case), we will loose that coloring. The utility that does that should probably also give a warning if any color codes are found outside of comments.
Have a nice day.
Thierry.
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