Special characters can be highlighted for each specific language. The characters are only highlighted if they are not part of another class of constructs such as a comment, a string, or a compiler directive. The default set of characters for each language follows:

Assembler

-+*⁄=<>&¬|:,

BookMaster®

&.,!?$

C

-+*⁄=<>&¬|:!;|%?#[] \

COBOL

.

DTL

<>()=

HTML

<>()=

Panel

&

Skel

&?!<|>

JCL

(),|<>¬&=

Pascal

-+*⁄=<>&¬|:[]

PL/I

-+*⁄=<>&¬|:

REXX

-+*⁄=<>&¬|:%\

SuperC

None

XML

<>()[]=

Other

-+*⁄=<>&¬|:

These character sets may be changed by each user using the HILITE dialog.