Re: Hex attribute characters in rpgle source member column 5 issue

Jeff,

Did you try the font: TERMINAL, it will show special characters...

It is the only font that shows the special characters. But, NOT as a BLOCK, thanks to the way Microsoft re-did the Fonts to hide those special characters. Hex 22 will show a downward pointing Triangle with the font: "TERMINAL"

PS. Why don't the use the power of RDi 9.0.1? Are they afraid of learning new things? Do they like "Text ONLY" web-sites...
<LOL>

I really wish that Microsoft would have kept the fonts the same...

Oh well, out of my hands and out of my control, I am powerless...

NOTE: I always run remove the special characters when I edit my code....

For the record: This is issue is caused by MICRSOFT... <Big Frown>

-Ken Killian-


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From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Young
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To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Hex attribute characters in rpgle source member column 5 issue

Thanks Dave and Mike.
Unfortunately, there are a number of developers (and help desk people) that still use SEU for editing, so I need to leave the attribute character in place.

Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Dave Shaw <daveshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Another way is to select the zero width character (yes, LPEX lets you
do that), copy it, and paste it into the Find/Replace dialog.

Dave Shaw


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From: "Jones, Mike" <mike.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
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Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Hex attribute characters in rpgle source member
column 5 issue


I use this command at the bottom of the LPEX editor to strip out those
x'22' values:

findText all replaceWith "" regularExpression \u0082

Unicode 0082 is the equivalent of EBCDIC hex 22. You can use the
right click "Source" -> "Hex Edit Line" feature to see Unicode to
EBCDIC CP037 hex equivalents.

I use this command looking for other special characters:

findText regularExpression [^\x20-\x7E]
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