BiizTalk 2013 and EDI Message Invalid character in data element

Question

Hi:
Background: I have a Vendor sending us EDI
856 (Advance Shipping Notice). We are using EDI X12 and BizTalk 2013. In the Parties Agreement we use ISA11 = U-US EDI Community of ASC X12. The vendor is sending 'U' in ISA11.
Error:
At the beginning of EDI Schema import, during EDI audit, we get the following error messages, repeated a few time.
Error: 1 (Field level error)
            SegmentID: LIN
            Position in TS: 18
            Data Element ID: LIN09
            Position in Segment: 9
            Data Value:
            6:
Invalid character in data element
Error: 2 (Field level error)
            SegmentID: PID
            Position in TS: 20
            Data Element ID: PID05
            Position in Segment: 5
            Data Value:
            6:
Invalid character in data element
Root Cause: In all the error cases the data
fields contain “Ü” (U with two dots above it). German character.
Question: What is the best way to deal with
the issue or replace “Ü” (U with two dots above it) characters?
Looking forward to your reply.
Regards, Toraj
Toraj [email protected]

Answer 1

I edited the source file and saved it as UTF-8. It seems, it resolved the issue.
Very cool.
Toraj
Toraj [email protected]
Glad that you have solved this issue by yourself, and thanks for sharing your solution to us.
Best regards,
Angie
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