Hi Rick,
As Greg already pointed out: the characters you mention will not be a problem for Cloverleaf!
It all depends on the character set that the receiving system is able to manage. I only had to strip these special characters when sending messages in EDIFACT format, as EDIFACT only uses part of the ASCII character set.
What you should watch out for (and Greg mentioned this also) is when the sending system is sending text with HL7 separator characters. If the sending system is sending HL7 messages itself, these characters will already be converted: a ‘&’ will become a ‘T’.
If the sending system isn’t sending HL7 messages, but flat records for example, you need to make sure to convert the separator characters in texts before/during translation into HL7.
Zuyderland Medisch Centrum; Heerlen/Sittard; The Netherlands
