Using International Character Sets - Intermec EasyCoder 501XP Programmer's Reference Manual

9.2 Using International Character Sets

The data input to text fi elds and bar codes takes the form of an ASCII
string. Even compound data, such as...
PRTXT "Label No.";CNT1$;" Date ";DATE$("F")
...is expanded by the printer into a single ASCII string before any other
processing occurs. This ASCII string is then converted to a string of
international character codes according to the Unicode standard. Every
character, whether it be a Latin "A", Greek "alpha" or Chinese "ren", has
a unique code in this standard, called its "unicode.".
Unicode Fonts
The Intermec Direct Protocol v7.80 works with Unicode fonts in either
TrueDoc or TrueType format: its font scaler accesses images of characters
within these fonts according to the character's unicode.
Some care is required when using fonts not built into the printer:
• If a font is not a Unicode font, the font scaler could access the wrong
characters depending on the internal mapping table of the font.
• A font may not include all the characters in the current character set,
as specifi ed by the
which is not in the current font, Error 1030, "Character is missing in
chosen font" will occur.
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command. If a text fi eld contains a character
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