skjoldtc (4/29/2010)
No. I don't know why that is.
I now recall that the AS400 has a max CCSID (coded character set ID) of 65533. That makes sense since the original data came from a mainframe. IBM mainframes and AS400 both use EBCDIC. There are some unprintable and undisplayable characters and 65533 is used as a replacement on those systems. Basically, IIRC, it ends being a printable/displayble character defined system-wide that is substituted. So, you could define that a ~ (or any other printable/displayable character) prints or displays instead of throwing an error.
At my age, that's a lot to recall, so, I may be mistaken. 😉
Thank you very much for information, now everything makes perfect sense. I just found on the List of Unicode Characters page that the maximum available printable character code is not FFFF (65535) like I assumed, but is indeed FFFD (65533), and it is officially called "Replacement Character". 65534 and 65535 do not represent anything, they are so-called noncharacters much like anything in the range from FDD0 to FDEF (64976 to 65007).
Oleg