William,
If you don't adhere to the specified standards, are they really
standards?
-----Original Message-----
From: William J. Kammerer
You mean you'd tell Nestl� and Banco de M�xico or Hydro-Qu�bec or
Petr�leos de Venezuela or Rh�ne-Poulenc or Peugeot Citro�n to take their
business elsewhere just because you can't handle a few diacritics? If
free e-mail can handle ordinary Latin characters, why not expensive
half-million dollar EDI systems?
William J. Kammerer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Mehlhorn"
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.
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