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Charset

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    1. 1. Character Set 
    Character Set 
    [Following is a copy from IG version 2.7 regarding character set]
     
    To create SEPA messages, i.e. the reference data, the following characters are permitted according to the UTF-8 and/or ISO 8859 coding35. Any usage of  byte order marks (BOM) is not permitted. 
     
    Permitted Character Code   Character  Hex Code 
    numeric characters  0 to 9  X'30' – X'39' 
    capital characters  A to Z  X'41' – X'5A' 
    small characters  a to z  X'61' – 'X'7A' 
    apostrophe  '  X'27' 
    colon    :  X'3A' 
    question mark  ?  X'3F' 
    comma    ,  X'2C' 
    minus    -  X'2D' 
    blank character     X'20' 
    left bracket  (  X'28' 
    plus sign    +  X'2B' 
    period    .  X'2E' 
    right bracket  )  X'29' 
    slash    /  X'2F' 
     
    For the characters which have been additionally permitted for hitherto existing national pay-
    ment transactions (DTAUS character set, see Chapter 1), the following regulation applies:  
    1. The financial institutions commit themselves to their adoption. 
    2. These can be converted according to the rules stated in the following table, if applicable:  
    Characters to be supported   Characters  Conversion according to EPC
    Best Practices     		 Alternatively per-
    mitted 
    Umlauts (capital and small characters)   Ä, Ö, Ü, ä, ö, ü  If not displayable, then convert to
    A, O, U, a, o, u     		 AE, OE, UE, 
    ae, oe, ue 
    S sharp  ß  s ss 
    Ampersand  &  If not displayable, then convert to 
    "+"      		  
    No alternative 
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