Reserved characters prepended by the masking delimiter in EDIFACT

Hi All
I have a X2E mapping where I may get the reserved characters like +:'? in the input xml.
What happens is that BICMD prepends the reserved characters by the default masking character ?.
For example my input is apple+ball:bat's
then my BICMD output is apple?+ball?:bats?'s
what i want is that input should remain unchanged in the output of the BICMD.
Also i dont want the UNA segment to appear in the BICMD output.
Does any one know what properties i need to change in the BIC MD in order to achieve the desired output?

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