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Cadle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> As I am not very familiar with EDIFACT, are there other ways to use
> special characters in EDIFACT messages without generating syntax
> warnings?
>
The 0001 data element can have the following values to define the
character set used.
UNOA UN/ECE level A As defined in ISO 9735.
UNOB UN/ECE level B As defined in ISO 9735.
UNOC UN/ECE level C
As defined in ISO 8859-1 : Information processing -
Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1.
UNOD UN/ECE level D
As defined in ISO 8859-2 : Information processing -
Part 2: Latin alphabet No. 2.
UNOE UN/ECE level E
As defined in ISO 8859-5 : Information processing -
Part 5: Latin/Cyrillic alphabet.
UNOF UN/ECE level F
As defined in ISO 8859-7 : Information processing -
Part 7: Latin/Greek alphabet.
Anything other than UNOA uses the level B syntax characters (the
unprintable ones!) by default, and therefore a UNA is generally used to
set the syntax characters back to the level A standard.
On a practical level the allowed characters in the chosen set are often
ignored in real world EDIFACT EDI. The standard does have a 'by mutual
agreement' escape clause which sanctions this after a fashion.
Regards
Chris
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