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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