>> > 4. In X12 there is a *Basic Character Set, and a Extended
Character Set;
>> > and there's also Control Characters.
>> >
>> Unlike the EDIFACT syntax, there is no indicator in the X12 interchange
>> to advise the consumer the character set (or even the encoding) that is
>> used. Encoding (EBCDIC vs. ASCII, for example) is beyond the scope of
>> the standards.
>
>This is new for me - you are saying that I can recieve a file in
>EBCDIC? Are x12 fils actually snet in EBCDIC??
Heck yah. I send 75,000 transactions/month in EBCDIC. (Gentran:Basic for IBM
zSeries)
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