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

7. EANCOM Segments Layout

Language select:

Previous Segment Segment number: 1 Legend Next Segment

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.
			EDIFACT	EAN	*	GER	Description
UNA1	Component data element separator		M an1	M			Component data element separator Default value: ":"
UNA2	Data element separator		M an1	M			Data element separator Default value:  "+"
UNA3	Decimal notation		M an1	M			Decimal notation Default value: "."
UNA4	Release indicator		M an1	M			Release character Default value:  "?"
UNA5	Reserved for future use		M an1	M			Reserved for future use (Default value: space )
UNA6	Segment terminator		M an1	M			Segment terminator 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.

Previous Segment Next Segment

© Copyright GS1 Germany GmbH Ausgabe 2012