USAGE RULES

In defining the format to be sent within field 77E, the following rules apply:

• All characters and codes described in the Standards MT General Information are allowed.

• The following exceptions are allowed:

  • Carriage return, Line feed, Colon 'CrLf:' may be used to separate fields included in field 77E, for example,

    :77E::20:ref1'CrLf'
    :21:ref2'CrLf'
    :79:test'CrLf' etc.

  • Line 1 (that is, 73z) may consist of only Carriage return, line feed, Colon 'CrLf:', for example,

    :77E:'CrLf'
    :21:ref:'CrLf' etc.

  • Line 1 may consist of blank characters, for example,

    :77E:eee'CrLf'

• Carriage return, line feed, hyphen ('CrLf-') indicates the end of the text.

• The maximum size of this field is limited to 9800 characters.