This is one issue I've fought within the Electric Supply industry. One problem was when IBM AS400 machines would translate from EBCDIC to ASCII, some characters would not translate to anything usable. Some TPs insisted on using nonprintable characters within their defined as alphanumeric data fields.
I can't recall how many times I've sent out the X12 12.6 table to new TPs, but they do listen when you tell them you can't do business if they keep using the barred characters. Dan Mehlhorn Crescent Electric Supply Co. -----Original Message----- From: Oleg Medyanik 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 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 > k, v, 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 > . 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/
