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Re: Swedish chars in EDIFACT
> Quoted text is from < by Andrew BK
> <
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From: "Chris Johnson" <
> >The data is damaged on arrival. We are convinced it is being damaged in
> >its pass through IBM. Something somewhere is not 8-bit clean. Is this a
> >known deficiency with OFTP? I have previously been told by IBM IE that
> >they process EDIFACT data in binary mode. Any recommendations?
>
> I have a very, very vague memory from 1989/1990 of this sort of damage
> occurring when sending Swedish EDI messages over IBM IE, and that it was
> due to asymmetries in ASCII/EBCDIC conversion. I think we 'solved' it by
> using the converter's capability to perform character mapping on the
> incoming data stream.
>
> Regards
> Chris
>
Chris,
You are correct - we (a Swedish company) had this problem with a Swiss
customer
around 2000 and we solved it as You mentioned - we used a builtin-function
in our
edi/xml language to (re-)translate these characters.
Regrads
Kurt Svensson
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Inobiz AB, Ynglingagatan 16
SE-113 47 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 8 54 54 54 20
Fax: +46 8 54 54 54 21
Cell: +46 708 84 43 22
E-mail:
www.inobiz.com
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