4.34 Special Characters

Special characters include any printable characters not counted as alphanumeric. Special characters may be used in fields of Data Type ANS (Alphanumeric and Special). Special characters received from the card schemes are based on the following standards:

For Mastercard Banknet - any printable ISO8859-1 character (excluding alphanumeric)
For Visa Base1 - any printable IBM EBCDIC code page 1148 character (excluding alphanumeric). See the figure below.

Special Characters Table

Figure 19: IBM Special Characters - EBCDIC code page 1148

Ignore the EBCDIC encoding value for the characters, as Thredd sends you the values encoded in UTF-8 format.

For more information on ISO-8859-1 character sets, see: charset.org: Character sets > ISO-8859-1 (Western Europe)

For more information on IBM character sets defined in EBCDIC code page 1148, see ibm.com: docs > Character sets