International Character Internal Codes - Epson FX-80 User Manual

Table 17·1. International Character Internal Codes.
Dec.
USA France Germ. Eng. Denm. Sweden Italy Spain Japan
Code
35 6
12
36
11
64
0 16 29
91 5 23
18
23 5
7
92 15 24 20 24 9 31
93
16 25
13
13 30 8
94
25
96
30 2
123 30
26 19 26
0
22
124 2 27 21 27 3 10
125 1 28 14 14 1
126 22 17 28 4
Find 8 in the table; it is in the CHR$(93) row under the Spain heading.
To print the character stored in 8, use (ESC) "R" to activate the Span-
ish character set, and print CHR$(93). Ole! This same technique can
be used to access any of the normally unprintable control codes.
Here's a word or two to the wise: using an international character
set while defining characters can be a two-edged sword. If you are
currently in one of the international modes (other than USA), then
defining any of the codes 35,36,64,91 to 94,96, or 123 to 126 gets a
bit tricky. These codes are merely pointers to the control-code areas in
which the international characters are really stored.
To define any of these characters while in an international mode,
the "true" location of the character must be used. For instance, if the
printer is in the Spanish set and you wish to define character 93, you
must use CHR$(8) in the (ESC)"
&"
sequence to define the character,
but CHR$(93) to print it.
To make sure you have this concept down cold, try answering this
one: How would you redefine the ESCape code? (Not to worry, we
won't disable your precious ESCape code.) First find 27 on the chart. It
occurs in two places, one of which is in the column labelled Sweden
and the row labelled 124. So a user-defined character stored at 27
could be printed in the Swedish set as character 124. Whew!
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