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Nguyet
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I have a special charcter, its a legal section character (§§) that I need to get onto my report without it changing to question marks as an output. The Hex code for the character is A7. Can anyone help me with this?

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eric.woerle
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I think the function you are looking for is HEXBYT. You can find more information on it in the help file. I don't know if that specific value is in there, but you can check. theres a link to a list of characters. Also I believe this will depend on you NLS settings and the type font you are using as well. The character would need to be supported by each of those too.


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Rifaz
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Hi Nguyet,

Welcome to the forum!!!

After setting the code page value is 1252 in Reporting Server Console, believe, you'll be able to see §
-SET &char=HEXBYT(167,'A1');
-TYPE &char


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susannah
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the section symbol is & # 1 6 7 = § or & s e c t = §
here's a reference
http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm
and you can use them in your fex, remembering to use the escape character for the ampersand
&|#167; or &|sect;



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Alan B
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As long as you use the correct code pages in WebFOCUS this character will be visible in all outputs. Use 137 not 437 on the server and 137 on the client.


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Nguyet
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&|#167

Thank you all for your suggestions. I did use &|#167 and it worked out perfectly.


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