26 Elements of Card Design
TTS (Thrift Third Standard) 
ThemaximumnumberofcharactersforTTSformatis104characters.Numeric
charactersandthe followingspecialcharactersareallowed:
:;<=>
Single-Track Option (JIS)
Thedefaultdataformatforasingle‐trackmagneticstripemoduleistheJIS
(JapaneseIndustrialStandard)TypeIIformat.
ThemaximumnumberofcharactersfortheJISformatis69characters.These
characterscanincludespaces,numericcharacters,uppercasealphabetic
characters,lowercasealphabeticcharacters,andthefollowingspecialcharacters:
!"#$%&'()*+,‐./:;<=>?@[]^_~{|}~
APCrunningaJapaneseeditionofasupportedWindowsoperatingsystemalso
supportsJapanese‐languagespecialcharactersand55Katakanacharacters.They
includethefollowing:
•  Specialcharacters:
•  45Katakanacharacters:
•  10Katakanacharacters: