Just curious- What is the point in creating a company policy to limit the character sets used to communicate with your partners? :)
Travis- -----Original Message----- From: Philippart, Marianne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 8:08 AM To: Dan Mehlhorn Cc: EDI-L Listserv Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Non-ASCII characters Dan, My point was to show that indeed (some?) EDI software allow for handling of these special characters, the flexibility is there, whether companies decide to use it or not is a different thing. In our case, we have found easier to agree on the usage of some of these characters rather than requesting our trading partners to modify hundreds of product descriptions in their catalog in order to send us an 832. Marianne -----Original Message----- From: Dan Mehlhorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 7:47 AM To: Philippart, Marianne Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Non-ASCII characters Marianne, I use TIE eVision Enterprise. As company policy we choose not to add characters like `, ^, etc. to the character set. Dan -----Original Message----- From: Philippart, Marianne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 1:45 PM To: EDI-L Listserv Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Non-ASCII characters Our EDI software does not cost half-million dollar and it allows us to add any character to the list of acceptable characters. If you are using eVision from Tie Commerce, this is easy to fix, I would be surprised if other products would not have some type of solution to this problem... Marianne Philippart -----Original Message----- From: William J. Kammerer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 2:30 PM To: EDI-L Listserv Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Non-ASCII characters 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 Novannet Columbus, OH 43221-3859 . USA +1 (614) 487-0320 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Mehlhorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "EDI-L Listserv" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 04 April, 2005 11:17 AM Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Non-ASCII characters 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. . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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/
