S505 Service character for signature

Identification of the characters used as syntactical service characters when a signature was computed.

Position: 010 · Element: 0551 · Name: Service character for signature qualifier · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Mandatory · Min: 1 · Max: 3 · Repeat: -

Identification of the type of service character used when the signature was computed.

Position: 020 · Element: 0548 · Name: Service character for signature · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Mandatory · Min: 1 · Max: 4 · Repeat: -

Service character used when the signature was computed.

In order to avoid translator problems, this service character is represented by its value in the character set identified by the original character set encoding data element (0507), hexa-filtered on, at least, two characters. For example the service character "'" is coded "27" (two characters), if ASCII 8bit code page is used.