DataCard SD160, Installation And Administrator'S Manual

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28 Elements of Card Design
Single-Track Option (JIS)
The default data format for a single ‐ track magnetic stripe module is the JIS (Japanese Industrial
Standard) Type II format.
The maximum number of characters for the JIS format is 69 characters. These characters can
include spaces, numeric characters (0–9), uppercase alphabetic characters (A–Z), lowercase
alphabetic characters (a–z), and the following special characters:
! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , ‐ . / : ; < = > ? @ [ ] ^ _ ~ { | } ~
A PC running a Japanese edition of a supported Windows operating system also supports
Japanese ‐ language special characters and 55 Katakana characters. They include the following:
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Special characters:
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45 Katakana characters:
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10 Katakana characters:
Each time you start or stop using Japanese ‐ language characters, the Card Printer Driver adds a
hidden character. Each hidden character reduces the number of characters you can encode by
one character.