Yes whenever these extended characters go through EBCDIC - ASCII or ASCII -
EBCDIC conversion they get lost. Which apparently can happen within the
VAN's also is it is very common for VANs to use MVS Mainframes. In the
past when this has happened I've had to switch interconnects betweens VANs
or different systems within the same VAN. Which leads me to think VANs are
not fully X12 or UN EDIFACT compliant. :). Kind of related to the BIN
segment discussion on the list earlier.
Regards,
-Steve
"Dan Mehlhorn" To:
"EDI-L Listserv"
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Subject: RE:
[EDI-L] Non-ASCII characters
04/04/2005 11:17 AM
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
>
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