Processing Item Descriptions

Item descriptions are entered in the following mandatory fields of the Item setup form:

• Item Description: Is entered in the Global Item Attributes section.
• Receipt CR Description: Is entered in the Account Item Attributes section. The size of this field is limited to 24 symbols, including spaces.

  

When item descriptions are exported to the cash registers they are processed in the following way:

1. Depending on the cash register type the number of symbols from the Receipt CR Description field is truncated while being sent to the cash register:

   Cash Register Type	Number of symbols sent to CR from the Receipt CR Description field
   SmartPOS	20 symbols
   Radiant
   Verifone	16 symbols
   ITL and other CR types	24 symbols

2. Depending on the cash register type the following conditions are applied:

Cash Register Type	Conditions
ITL	Applicable to the Item Description field only: All symbols that are not included into the ASCII Table are removed from the description.
SmartPOS	Applicable to the Item Description field only: Spaces at the beginning and the end of the sentence, if any, are removed. The " (double quote) and ` (apostrophe) symbols are converted to the ' (single quote) symbol.
Verifone
Passport and other CR types	All characters are processed by the transliterator_transliterate function. The examples are given below: Ü is transliterated to U é is transliterated to e å is transliterated to a ю is transliterated to u

2. Special symbols or predefined characters being processed by the htmlspecialchars() function are converted to the HTML entities:

Special Symbols	HTML Entities
& (ampersand)	&amp
" (double quote)	&quot
' (single quote)	&#039
< (less than)	&lt
> (greater than)	&gt