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When data of, for example, a customer/company record includes special characters these characters are translated into a special format to allow the receiving system to translate this formatter character back into the special character as intended by the system sending the data.
The values in the data fields of the export file(s) in Autoline are encoded with UTF-8 encoding. Hence, the Autoline language slot(s) available on the system are mapped to ISO2 and ISO3 country codes, but most important for the encoding is the mapping to the code pages.
Autoline (sending system) uses one of the available code pages, based on the user language (Autoline language slot) active at the time of the export and the mapping in the Mercedes-Benz ISO language Code Mapping parameters.
Warning: The exchange of special characters will go wrong if both the sending and the receiving system do not have the code page information available to handle the translation. In addition, if only one of the system contains the correct code page the exchange will lead to unusable results.
This form is displayed when you click Manufacturer systems (Module) and MB. Mercedes-Benz (Company) > Menu - Utilities > Mercedes-Benz parameters and you browse to System > ISO language code mapping > MB. Mercedes Benz on the Project parameters browser. It maintains the ISO language code mapping for up to 9 languages.
Fields:
Please make sure that the fields below are populated for all available languages.
Autoline language: Language (slot) as defined on the Language tab of the System controls form within System Utilities.
ISO 2: Enter the two digit ISO language code.
ISO 3: Enter the three digit ISO language code.
Code page: Select the code page to be used for UTF 8 conversion.
Note: The correct mapping of Autoline language slot to code page is obvious, as a missing or wrong code page would prevent the receiving system to translate it back into a readable/usable character.