Commercial Invoice - GS1 Austria GmbH

EANCOM 2002 Syntax 4 INVOIC 24.05.20114. Segment description INVOICUNA - C 1 - Service string adviceFunction : The service string advice shall begin with the upper case characters UNA immediatelyfollowed by six characters in the order shown below. The space character shall not beused inpositions 010, 020, 040, 050 or 060. The same character shall not be used in more thanoneposition of the UNA.Segment number : 1Data element group/Data element EDIFACT EAN * DescriptionUNA1Component data elementseparatorM an1 M * Used as a separator between component dataelements contained within a composite data element(default value: ":")UNA2 Data element separator M an1 M * Used as a separator between two simple orcomposite data elements (default value: "+" )UNA3 Decimal mark M an1 M * Used to indicate the character used for decimalnotation (default value:"." )UNA4 Release character M an1 M * Used to restore separator and terminator signs totheir normal meaning (value: "?" ).UNA5 Repetition separator M an1 M * Separator sign ("*")UNA6 Segment terminator M an1 M * Used to indicate the end of a segment (defaultvalue: " ' ")Segment notesThis segment is used to inform the receiver of the interchange that in the following message is used a set of servicestring characters which is different from the default one.When using the default set of service characters, the UNA segment is not sent. In the case when UNA Segment is sent,it must immediately precede the UNB segment and contain the six service string characters defined in UNA1 toUNA6).Regardless of whether or not all of the service string characters have been changed every data element within thissegment must be filled, (i.e. if some default values are being used together with user-defined values then both thedefault and the user-defined values must be specified).When expressing the service string characters in the UNA segment no element separators are usedThe use of the UNA segment is required when a character set other than level A is being used.Example:UNA:+.?*'© Copyright GS1 Austria, GS1 Czech Republic, GS1 Slovakia 2011 14