

Each language code is encoded according to ISO 639. Language Preference (tag 5F2D) This is an optional data element encoded as one to four alphanumeric strings of two characters each, indicating to the terminal a list of one to four language codes. If the tag 9F12 is present in the FCI, then tag 9F11 should be also present. Issuer Code Table Index (tag 9F11) This is an optional data element indicating the code table of an alphabet (according to ISO 8859 ) used for displaying the characters in the alphanumeric string Application Preferred Name. For the same Application Label corresponding to a trademark belonging to a card association, different alphanumeric strings could be attached depending on a preferred alphabet used by the card issuer in a certain country. The Application Label is usually the trademark of the payment product.Īpplication Preferred Name (tag 9F12) This is an optional data element encoded as an alphanumeric string of 1 to 16 characters, which can provide a supplementary name for qualifying the card application in the ADF at the man-machine interface. The card application provider specifies the Application Label for displaying it at the man-machine interface of the terminal at the point of service. The PIX is unique only with respect to a RID and need not be unique across different RID(s).Īpplication Label (tag 50) This is a mandatory data element encoded as an alphanumeric string of 1 to 16 characters, which represents a name related with the AID of the card application in the ADF. The PIX, which is an optional field of up to 11 bytes assigned by the application provider to distinguish among several of its card application products. The structure of the AID is defined in the ISO 7816-5 as follows :Ī RID on 5 bytes, unique to an application provider and assigned by a specialized agency, which guarantees the uniqueness of the RID The value of the DF name field can be the AID of the payment application contained in that ADF. The terminal uses this element for referencing by the DF name the ADF (see Section 3.2.2). The subsequent paragraphs explain the meaning of the data elements encoded in the FCI of an ADF.ĭF Name (tag 84) This mandatory data element represented on 5 to 16 bytes in a binary format stores the name of the DF that organizes the ADF. 4.3.1.1 The meaning of data elements in the FCI of the ADF
