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Character Set

1999-04-14
Definition: This field contains the character set for the entire message. Refer to HL7 table 0211 - Alternate character sets for valid values.

Table 0211 - Alternate character sets

Length≤16
14 values
8859/1The printable characters from the ISO 8859/1 Character set
8859/2The printable characters from the ISO 8859/2 Character set
8859/3The printable characters from the ISO 8859/3 Character set
8859/4The printable characters from the ISO 8859/4 Character set
8859/5The printable characters from the ISO 8859/5 Character set
8859/6The printable characters from the ISO 8859/6 Character set
8859/7The printable characters from the ISO 8859/7 Character set
8859/8The printable characters from the ISO 8859/8 Character set
8859/9The printable characters from the ISO 8859/9 Character set
ASCIIThe printable 7-bit ASCII character set . (This is the default if this field is omitted)
ISO IR14Code for Information Exchange (one byte)(JIS X 0201-1976), Note that the code contains a space, i.e. "ISO IR14".
ISO IR87Code for the Japanese Graphic Character set for information interchange (JIS X 0208-1990), Note that the code contains a space, i.e. "ISO IR87".
ISO IR159Code of the supplementary Japanese Graphic Character set for information interchange (JIS X 0212-1990), Note that the code contains a space, i.e. "ISO IR159".
UNICODEThe world wide character standard from ISO/IEC 10646-1-1993
IDcoded value for HL7 defined tablesPrimitive