Encoding and Languages
Several of our core services internally are using the Windows-1257 code page supporting mainly Baltic and a list of other European languages. While the ISO20022 standard messages technically use UTF-8.
In practice in most cases it means that we do technically accept the UTF-8 Unicode characters, but replace them with ? symbols if these characters are not supported by Windows-1257. This rule applies to all API services unless stated differently - including the.
For example unstructured payment description submitted in the payment file:
More info about the code page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1257
In addition to code page requirements Connect applies the following character conversions. These conversions apply before codepage restrictions take place.
Character replacements for all payments
Additional replacements based on receiver bank BIC country
ISO - all countries except for EE and GB
EE - Estonia
GB - Great Britain
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