Selecting Character Set - Intermec EasyCoder 501XP Programmer's Reference Manual

Chapter 6 — Setting Up the Printer

6.13 Selecting Character Set

The instruction is used to select a character set that decides how
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the various characters will be printed. This instruction makes it possible
to adapt the printer to various national standards. By default, the Roman
8 character set is used, see Chapter 10.
NASC <character set number>
1: Roman 8 (default) -1:
33: French
34: Spanish
39: Italian
44: English
46: Swedish
47: Norwegian
49: German
81: Japanese Latin
351: Portuguese
Suppose you order the printer to print the character ASCII 124 dec.
ASCII 124 dec. will generate the character "|" according to the Roman 8
character set, "ù" according to the French character set and ñ according
to the Spanish set, etc. The same applies to a number of special national
characters, whereas digits 0-9 and characters A-Z, a-z plus most punctua-
tion marks are the same in all sets.
Check the character set tables in Chapter 10 and select the set that best
matches your data equipment and printout requirements.
If none of the sets matches your requirements exactly, select the one that
comes closest. Then, you can make fi nal corrections by means of
instructions, see Chapter 6.12.
Text on labels will be printed according to the selected character set.
However, instructions concerning the printable label image, that already
has been processed before the
affected. This implies that labels may be multilingual.
The pattern of the bars refl ects the ASCII values of the input data and
is not affected by a
human readable characters below the bar pattern) is affected by a
instruction. However, the interpretation of bar codes, that have been
processed and are stored in the print buffer, will not be affected.
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-2: ANSI
850: MS-DOS Latin 1
851: MS-DOS Greek 1
852: MS-DOS Latin 2
855: MS-DOS Cyrillic
857: MS-DOS Turkish
instruction is executed, will not be
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instruction. The bar code interpretation (the
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1250: Windows Latin 2
1251: Windows Cyrillic
1252: Windows Latin 1
1253: Windows Greek
1254: Windows Latin 5
1257: Windows Baltic Rim
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