In which situations we should use Character Mode Reports?

Question: In which situations we should use Character Mode Reports?
Explaination: I am faced with a certain situation. I feel that I should develop reports in Character Mode. But I am not sure about this.
I invite all readers to contribute on the subject matter. Once I receive responses, I will explain my specific situation as writing it now may narrow the list of such situations.
Also I would like to know what problems we face when developing reports in Character Mode. I was developing my first Character Mode report and I faced layering problems. So I would like to know more such precautions.
TIA
Tariq

Hi Muhammad,
There's any number of cases for using character mode Reports. However, they all typically come down to what your doing with the output of the report.
Basically, you need character mode reports whenever the Report output needs to be read by some sort of Ascii file reader. This could be notepad, VI, MSVC, dot matrix or fixed character set printers, ...
A less common case is where you just want to get at the data within the report. You're just using the ascii output as a data dump to pass through to another program/utility. (This is really just a specialised case of the previous one).
There are some cases where character mode output may be one of several choices. Eg: the body of an email message which could be HTML or plain text.
Robin.

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