Maintaining Special Invalid Character "Square" in BW

Hi Gurus,
I am actually trying to load some data from CRM, where the file has some hexadecimal numbers inbetween with 'Squares'. I tried maintaing the Invalid characters in RSKC, but I am not able to paste this special character there. Can anyone help me out in solving this problem. I tried in taking the error screen shot, pasting in MS paint, but the suare is dissapearing and a space is showing in MS point. Manual maintanance in PSA is possible, its a tedious process. Anykind of help is appreciated.
Thank You.
Anil.

Hi Anil,
You may want to check if the file with 'squares' is valid data and if it needs to be loaded as such. I have seen 'squares' being generated in flat-files in the process of creation. If I remember right the 'squares' stood for characters the code-page did not recognize.
Best regards
Mathew.
Message was edited by:
Mathew Muthalaly

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