>Correct. The hex value is the important part. Depending on your codepage >and/or keyboard it may look like a completely different character.
>But if you have something that not code-page aware and expects a $ (dollar >sign) then it's looking for x'5B'. You have to type whatever character on your >keyboard will give you that hex value. The latter is not generally true. It depends with what code page in mind the unaware application has been written. At a former employer, CP 500 was the standard. So every application, although code-page unaware, expected data to be in CP 500. And so a $ had to be x'5C'. The x'5B' applies when the unaware application, e.g. MVS, JESx, etc, was written with CP 037 in mind. -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
