Problem:
When moving a source that contains special characters from a different platform (i.e. Windows, HP...) to Linux you may find that you get compilation errors in those lines.
For example the following code:
working-storage section.
01 m2 pic x(02) value "m²".
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
(where the characters in the non-numeric literal are U 006D and U 00B2) could produce the following compilation error:
14 working-storage section.
15 01 m2 pic x(02) value "mý".
16
*1004-E****************************************************************( 0)**
** Continuation character expected. End of literal assumed.
17 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
*1014-E********* ( 1)**
** Period missing. Period assumed.
*1007-E********* ( 1)**
** VALUE literal size 31 > data item size 2. Literal truncated.
Resolution:
By default Linux uses UTF-8 as a character set. Typing
export LANG=en_GB
(or the code corresponding to your own language) would stop the compilation errors.
