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When you use a table file that was created with a different language driver from the current global language driver, some characters in the table file might not be recognized. This can lead to problems.

For example, the German language driver DB437DE0 has the same code page and character set as the US language driver DB437US0. However, the German language driver recognizes extended characters like ö and Ü as alphabetic characters, while the U.S. language driver doesn’t. Consequently, when a field name contains such characters (as with ÜNAMEN in the example below) problems arise when you try to reference the field in when using the U.S. language driver.

When such conditions exist, the following command generates an error condition:

replace ÜNAMEN with "Schiller"

You can solve this problem by surrounding the field name with the : delimiter, which treats the field name as an identifier regardless of the rules contained in the current language driver:

replace :ÜNAMEN: with "Schiller"

When you use this command, each element in the field name ÜNAMEN, including Ü, is treated as an identifier and the command executes successfully.