The DOS command prompt, DOS applications, and many Micro Focus products (including Net Express 1.0) use the OEM character set for editing and displaying text. Files created or displayed using these applications might show some characters differently from the way they appear in Net Express 2.0 and most other Windows applications, which use the ANSI character set. The characters affected are only those in the "extended set", including diacritical (accented) characters, line drawing characters and symbols.
For example, suppose you type an e with an acute accent (Y) in a COBOL source file in Net Express 2.0 or later. If you view the file in a DOS application using code page 850, this character displays as a Greek capital theta. This difference can also affect non-alphabetic characters such as the tilde (~) and British pound sign (£).
Net Express enables you to specify which character set is used by clicking a radio button on the Edit Options dialog box.
You should be aware of the following consequences of opening a source file that has not been saved in the currently selected character set (that is, an OEM file with Net Express set to ANSI, or an ANSI file with Net Express set to OEM):
A COBOL source or data file has probably been saved in the OEM character set if it was created using:
A COBOL source or data file has probably been saved in ANSI format if it was created using: