Coded identification of the character encoding used in the interchange.
Code
Description
1
ASCII 7 bit
ASCII 7 bit code.
2
ASCII 8 bit
ASCII 8 bit code.
3
Code page 500 (EBCDIC Multinational No. 5)
Encoding schema for the repertoire as defined by the code page.
4
Code page 850 (IBM PC Multinational)
Encoding schema for the repertoire as defined by the code page.
5
UCS-2
Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) two- octet per character encoding schema as defined in ISO/IEC 10646-1.
6
UCS-4
Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) four- octet per character encoding schema as defined in ISO/IEC 10646-1.
7
UTF-8
UCS Transformation Format 8 (UTF-8) multi-octet (of length one to six octets) per character encoding schema as defined in ISO/IEC 10646-1, Annex R.
8
UTF-16
UCS Transformation Format 16 (UTF-16) two-octet per character encoding schema as defined in ISO/IEC 10646-1, Annex Q.
ZZZ
Mutually agreed
Mutually agreed between trading partners.
