The analysis of statements is always performed in UTFE.
The statements are converted from the character set in which they were read in into UTFE. This is always possible. This ensures, for example, that the '@' character can be used as the EDT statement symbol in all character sets.
Alongside the EDT statement symbol, EDT also makes it possible to redefine a number of other symbols of syntactic importance (single quotes and double quotes with @QUOTE, the line range symbol with @RANGE, wildcard symbols and filler characters with
@SYMBOLS). To ensure consistent usage here, the set of permitted symbols is limited: Only the following symbols can be used:
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This means that only the special characters from EDF03IRV are permitted. Symbols which are present as special characters only in other character sets are rejected. in the case of EDF041, for example, these are § and ¤ as well as the symbols that cannot be entered at a normal keyboard such as 1⁄4, 2, ¶.