HL7 Message Encoding

To extend what I wrote about for the Encoding for HL7 messages post. There are two values that are used for the Message Encoding context properties. It isn't obvious but follow the logic:

According to Extended Encoding Support page in the Note section of step 5 you can only choose Western European or UTF8, so if I look at the Encoding Class documentation, the table below are the values you can use:

Value To Set Name Display
65001 utf-8 Unicode (UTF-8)
850 ibm850

Western European (DOS)

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