EDI Recommendations Invoice/Credit note (Food/NonFood Industries) INVOIC

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UNA - C 1 -	Service string advice
Function:   To define the characters selected for use as delimiters and indicators in the rest of the interchange that follows.
Business Term		DE	EDIFACT	EAN	*	GER	Description
Component data element separator		UNA1	M an1	M			Default value: ":"
Data element separator		UNA2	M an1	M			Default value:  "+"
Decimal notation		UNA3	M an1	M			Default value: "."
Release character		UNA4	M an1	M			Default value:  "?"
Reserved for future use		UNA5	M an1	M			(Default value: space )
Segment terminator		UNA6	M an1	M			Default value: " ' "
Segment notes: The use of the UNA segment is mandatory, if character set "A" (UNB,DE0001) is not used. For international EDI the use of character set UNOA is recommended. For national (German) EDI the use of UNOC is reasonable because it contains lower case letters and umlauts.   Example: UNA:+.? ' The UNA segment contains the default service string characters.

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