Hi, Probably you can not blame your TP. In 4010 X12 spec read "APPLICATION CONTROL STRUCTURE 3.3 Character Set" of the specification. EDI uses not pure ASCII but... "Note: See ISO document 8859-1 (Latin-1 Alphabet) for an example of an encoding of select language characters."
Oleg Medyanik www.directedi.com --- Susan Stecklair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All -- > > Would be interested in your knowledge on this issue. > One of our trading > partners is sending foreign characters to us such as > �, �, etc. and the > translator is bombing. > > Unfortunately, it is a strategic partner. If I > recall, EDI should be > ASCII compliant and these are not ASCII. Can anyone > point to the bible > that says this? I'd like to have my ducks in order > before I make this > accusation. > > Any suggestions for packages which can convert the > data to ASCII? Or > other ideas to resolve? > > Our partner says that some translators can handle. > Are you aware of one? > > Any thought on this will be helpful. If you wish, > send directly to me > and I'll compile the results for the list. > > Thanks, > Susan Stecklair > > > Susan Stecklair > > > URL: www.ecommerce-inc.com > Phone: 408.996.7492 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------- Sincerely yours, Oleg Medyanik ICQ: 11451220 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
