Mask special characters

Hi,
I have a really strange problem.
When a user enters text into the purchase order item text with more than 1 &, the SAPscript when printing the PO item text thinks that in between the &'s there's a varaible and text is omitted.
Have anyone else come across this situation before, I believe there may be a system parameter missing but not sure what.
Any help will be applicated
Regards
J-J

you can use an include text instead of the read_text fm.
goto the general attributes of a text element. From the drop down menu, convert the text type to include text.
The just as in read_text fm pass the parameters
text name, text object, text id and language.
Every thing will be handled automatically
This might also help you..
There might be a case where we would need to print 2 commas in SAPScript, but SAPScript interprets ,, as a tab. To print 2 commas in SAPScript, here is an alternative:
<(>,<)>
This will preserve the double comma and not consider it as a Tab.
If there are ,, (Double comma) in the text and you want to avoid it to be being treated as TAB then use u201C<(>,<)>,u201D instead of double commas

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