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Processing Item Descriptions

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

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 TypeNumber of symbols sent to CR from the Receipt CR Description field
    SmartPOS

    20 symbols

    Radiant
    Verifone

    16 symbols

    ITL and other CR types24 symbols
  1. Depending on the cash register type the following conditions are applied:
  2. 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

  1. Special symbols or predefined characters being processed by the htmlspecialchars() function are converted to the HTML entities:
  2. Special Symbols HTML Entities
    & (ampersand) &amp
    " (double quote) &quot
    ' (single quote) &#039
    < (less than) &lt
    > (greater than) &gt