Typography

Wire Character Set

Please adopt the following typography when filing:

The @ sign may not transmit to some customers, so describe it as the "typographical at symbol" or in e-mail addresses as " at "

€: spell out as euro (see Figures).

$: spell out as dollar (see Figures).

%: spell out as per cent (see Spelling).

German umlauts: ä becomes ae, ö becomes oe, ü becomes ue
All other accented letters: convert to nearest standard English letter: e.g. é becomes e. Accordingly, strip the diacritic marks off Turkish and Scandinavian letters: in this case ö becomes o. See also: Spelling

Quote marks: prefer double quotes (") to two apostrophes (' ')

Dash: single space + single hyphen + single space: ( - )

Ellipsis: single space + three periods + single space ( ... )

Between sentences: a single letterspace only

Tables

All tabulated material - sports results, market prices, election results and so on - must be preceded and followed by the following three characters: <#>. What they do: The symbols are a command to dpa's ERNA computer to add format codes where appropriate for customers using ANPA 1312 systems so that the lines do not close up to the left and wrap. The symbols will not appear in the end-user's copy. An example:

The global index of 31 commodities represents three-quarters of all imports of raw materials by western industrialized countries. <#> average change with respect to week month previous month month of previous year Global Index 109.5 108.3 5.2 59.6 Cereals 86.6 86.4 0.1 - 4.6 Oil seeds/oil 91.8 91.6 - 1.3 - 3.7 <#> dpa ct

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