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Character Set
2014-03-17
Definition: This field contains the character set for the entire message. Refer to HL7 Table 0211 - Alternate Character Sets in Chapter 2C, Code Tables, for valid values.
An HL7 message uses field MSH-18 Character Set to specify the character set(s) in use. Valid values for this field are specified in HL7 Table 0211 - Alternate Character Sets. MSH-18 Character Set may be left blank, or may contain one or more values delimited by the repetition separator. If the field is left blank, the character set in use is understood to be the 7-bit ASCII set, decimal 0 through decimal 127 (hex 00 through hex 7F). This default value may also be explicitly specified as ASCII.
Length5-15
21 values
8859/1 | The printable characters from the ISO 8859/1 Character set |
8859/2 | The printable characters from the ISO 8859/2 Character set |
8859/3 | The printable characters from the ISO 8859/3 Character set |
8859/4 | The printable characters from the ISO 8859/4 Character set |
8859/5 | The printable characters from the ISO 8859/5 Character set |
8859/6 | The printable characters from the ISO 8859/6 Character set |
8859/7 | The printable characters from the ISO 8859/7 Character set |
8859/8 | The printable characters from the ISO 8859/8 Character set |
8859/9 | The printable characters from the ISO 8859/9 Character set |
8859/15 | The printable characters from the ISO 8859/15 (Latin-15) |
ASCII | The printable 7-bit ASCII character set.((This is the default if this field is omitted)) |
BIG-5 | Code for Taiwanese Character Set (BIG-5)(Does not need an escape sequence.<p>BIG-5 does not need an escape sequence. ASCII is a 7 bit character set, which means that the top bit of the byte is "0". The parser knows that when the top bit of the byte is "0", the character set is ASCII. When it is) |
CNS 11643-1992 | Code for Taiwanese Character Set (CNS 11643-1992)(Does not need an escape sequence.) |
GB 18030-2000 | Code for Chinese Character Set (GB 18030-2000)(Does not need an escape sequence.) |
ISO IR6 | ASCII graphic character set consisting of 94 characters.(http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/006.pdf) |
ISO IR14 | Code for Information Exchange (one byte)(JIS X 0201-1976).(Note that the code contains a space, i.e., "ISO IR14".) |
ISO IR87 | Code for the Japanese Graphic Character set for information interchange (JIS X 0208-1990),(Note that the code contains a space, i.e., "ISO IR87".<p>The JIS X 0208 needs an escape sequence. In Japan, the escape technique is ISO 2022. From basic ASCII, escape sequence "escape" $ B (in HEX, 1B 24 42) lets the parser know that following bytes shoul) |
ISO IR159 | Code 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".) |
KS X 1001 | Code for Korean Character Set (KS X 1001) |
UNICODE | The world wide character standard from ISO/IEC 10646-1-1993(Deprecated. Retained for backward compatibility only as v 2.5. Replaced by specific Unicode encoding codes.) |
UNICODE UTF-8 | UCS Transformation Format, 8-bit form(UTF-8 is a variable-length encoding, each code value is represented by 1,2 or 3 bytes, depending on the code value. 7 bit ASCII is a proper subset of UTF-8. Note that the code contains a space before UTF but not before and after the hyphen. Since UTF-8 re) |