Specifications

28 Elements of Card Design
TTS (Thrift Third Standard)
ThemaximumnumberofcharactersforTTSformatis104characters.Numeric
charactersandthe followingspecialcharactersareallowed:
:;<=>
Single-Track Option (JIS)
Thedefaultdataformatforasingle‐trackmagneticstripemoduleistheJIS
(JapaneseIndustrialStandard)TypeIIformat.
ThemaximumnumberofcharactersfortheJISformatis69characters.These
characterscanincludespaces,numericcharacters,uppercasealphabetic
characters,lowercasealphabeticcharacters,andthefollowingspecialcharacters:
!"#$%&'()*+,‐./:;<=>?@[]^_~{|}~
Japanese‐languagecharactersalsoaresupportedfromaPCrunningaJapanese
editionofasupportedoperatingsystem.Theyincludethefollowing:
• Specialcharacters:
• 45Katakanacharacters:
• 10Katakanacharacters: