Using ASCII Characters in EmpowHR
ASCII characters should be used when it is necessary to use a special character in EmpowHR (e.g., using a hyphen in an employee's name); however, the National Finance Center (NFC) Mainframe will only accept ASCII characters that are also Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC)-recognized characters.
The table below provides a list of characters that are not EBCDIC-recognized and should not be used in EmpowHR.
|
Character |
Explanation |
|---|---|
| ~ | Tilde |
| ` | Acute, backquote, backtick, grave, grave accent, left quote, open quote, or a push |
| ! | Exclamation mark, exclamation point, or bang |
| @ | Amerpersat, arobase, asperand, or at symbol |
| # | Octothorpe, number, pound, sharp, or hash |
| $ | Dollar sign or generic currency |
| % | Percent |
| ^ | Caret or circumflex |
| & | Ampersand, epershand, or and symbol |
| * | Asterisk, mathematical multiplication symbol, or sometimes called a star |
| ( | Open or left parenthesis |
| ) | Closed or right parenthesis |
| - | Hyphen, minus, or dash |
| _ | Underscore |
| + | Plus |
| = | Equal |
| { | Open brace, squiggly brackets, or curly bracket |
| } | Closed brace, squiqqly brackets, or curly bracket |
| [ | Open bracket |
| ] | Closed bracket |
| : | Colon |
| ; | Semi-colon |
| " | Quote, quotation mark, or inverted commas |
| < | Less than or angle brackets |
| > | Greater than or angle brackets |
| ? | Question mark |