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 <*> 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/
