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• ‘()’ are used as delimiters for the application identifiers. (printed as the HRI character, but not encoded.)
• Be sure to include all the application identifiers in the data.
• If the first data is “01” when an application identifier, left and right parentheses, and * are excluded, the 14th
digit counted from the digit next to “01” is used as the check digit. If the data is incorrect, an error will occur.
• If the number of digits after “01” is less than 14, a check digit is not added.
(Unlike GS1-128, a symbol “*” cannot be used for automatic calculation and addition of a check digit. If “*” is
added in the data, it will be ignored and the subsequent data is shifted by one digit.)
• Specify a special character as described below.
Control character ASCII HRI character
FNC1 {1 Not printed
Beginning parenthesis for an application
identifier
( ( is printed.
Closing parenthesis for an application iden-
tifier
) ) is printed.
'*' {* Error
Skipped character * Not printed
'{' {{ { is printed.