Sounds like the problem we have with the pound sign in the uk. You have to know where certain characters are in the fontset in order to print it - we get a variety of characters "£" "#" and even ">>" - all from the same base ascii character depending upon what font's in use.
So Our cobol code has to do accept replace etc on each print line to get a consistent symbol to appear.
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Hula [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 09:45 PM
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] HP PCL Question
That's a good thought. I do use QEDIT. However, this "~" is embedded in the
data, not in the program. And I don't compile and run the program from
QEDIT in any case...just edit it there. I did check the QEDITMGR file and there
wasn't anything in it related to the "~" symbol.
-----Original Message-----
From: Keven Miller (rtt) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 4:33 PM
To: Tom Hula; [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] HP PCL Question
Do you use QEDIT to edit the files?
I have some settigs to help me edit newlines, escape chars.
In my QEDITMGR I have these settings
SET ENDOFLINE "^"
SET VIS BELL "ö"
SET VIS ESC "Æ"
The VIS settings show those "International" chars in the vi screen when an escape or bell appear in the file.
This allows me to enter BELL or ESCAPE using those chars in visual mode.
Just wondering if something like that is affecting you.
Keven Miller
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Hula
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 02:25 PM
Subject: [HP3000-L] HP PCL Question
This is being done on an HP3000 in Cobol.
I'm making a change to a report that prints in PCL5. The field that was
changed was already getting bolded
and that works fine. On a programming change from our customer, I am seeing
fields like AQ004~ and B7003~.
In the existing program where I am trying to print this data, I am getting
things like AQ004u and B7003u where
that "u" has two dots above it. International, in other words. Looks like u
umlaut in German. Obviously, the
"~" symbol is some sort of PCL control character, but so far, I haven't been
able to find the secret to making
just the "~" appear or even when or why I would specify the "~" character as
a control character. It would
be nice if it was as simple as printing ~~ to make the ~ appear.
I'm actually taking three fields and the hyphens and putting them together
like so...the field with the ~ on the end is the 2nd field:
INITIALIZE PCL-15-BLOCK-STK-SEQ
STRING PB-EDI-BLOCK DELIMITED BY SPACES
"-" DELIMITED BY SIZE
PB-EDI-STACK-ID DELIMITED BY SPACES
"-" DELIMITED BY SIZE
PB-EDI-STACK-SEQ DELIMITED BY SPACES
INTO PCL-15-BLOCK-STK-SEQ
So I actually ended up with "005-AQ004u-002" on one line (u is u umlaut)
Tom Hula
Victor Barnes Company
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