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ASCII Encoding in Business Central Cloud

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ASCII: A thing from the past? Not in Dynamics NAV! - Views on Dynamics 365 Business Central - Dynamics 365 Business Central/NAV User Group - Dynamics User Group

How it is being handled in case of export of files in BC Cloud as there is no server to configure ASCII encoding or which encoding is used in these cases for different countries other than ENGLISH.

As some banks do only prefer a specific format as per their specified format and encoded it that specifically.

I read about UTF-8 where it says it understands ASCII , but how actual exported data encoding will be, I want to understand this?

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    Stefano Demiliani Profile Picture
    Stefano Demiliani 37,166 Most Valuable Professional on at

    There are several industry text encoding formats and different systems support different formats. Internally, Dynamics 365 Business Central uses Unicode encoding. For exporting and importing data with an XMLport, it supports MS-DOS, UTF-8, UTF-16, and Windows encoding formats.

    Data is imported and exported as follows:

    - When data is imported from an external file, it is read using the format that is specified by the TextEncoding property or parameter, and then converted to Unicode in Dynamics 365 Business Central.

    - When data is exported to an external file, it is converted from Unicode in Dynamics 365 Business Central, and then written to the file in the format that is specified by the TextEncoding property or parameter.

    You should set the text encoding (via the TextEncoding property) to the encoding format that is compatible with the system or program that you will be exporting to or importing from.

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    Thanks, but How well it handles as like in Business Central we can have multiple instances they all are in cloud while on-premises we can just change regional locale to handle from English to Russian or Danish specific characters and by that we can send data to the bank with their required format :

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    Stefano Demiliani 37,166 Most Valuable Professional on at

    When you import or export a TXT file, just specify the TextEncoding property with the formato you want. The supported set of characters is handled by the encoding.

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